Moorena+Alzheimer's+Disease

Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s disease will, overtime, make the brain lose its some of it's functions. Alzheimer's damages the parts of the brain that have to do with memory, language, and thought.
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Alzheimer's is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. Autosomal dominant means that only one parent has to pass the gene down to the child.
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Alzheimer’s disease damages the parts of the brain that have to do with memory, thought, and language. This might make whoever has Alzheimer's forget their name, have problems finding things, and/or make the person sad or nervous more often. <embed height="267" width="200" src="[]" quality="high" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" wmode="transparent" allowFullScreen="true" pluginspage="[]" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="widget_name">
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Diagnosis: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">There isn't a test to prove that someone has Alzheimer's, but doctor do take test to rule out any other disease that might have similar symptoms.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">There isn't cure for Alzheimer’s yet, but doctors do give certain medicines like antidepressants or anxiety relievers to patients try to slow down some of the symptoms.
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<span style="font-family: Times,serif; line-height: 24px;">Doctors are doing numerous tests on patients without Alzheimer's and people with Alzheimer's who have only shown minor affects of the symptoms to see if the could find out what causes Alzheimer's.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alzheimer's patients more than often need the aid of a caregiver. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Doctor Alois Alzheimer named the disease in 1906. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The older a person gets, the higher chance they have at getting Alzheimer’s. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">As many as four million people have Alzheimer’s.
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