Alzheimer's Disease Research Paper

Some aged people have problems with remembering, they forget rapidly and they do not remember past events or even some of beloved family members. They have a kind of lake in their mental capacity and problems in concentration. This group of symptoms in memory loss could be a serious dementia problem, which is called Alzheimer’s disease. At this point, what is an Alzheimer’s disease? What are the symptoms? How can be diagnosed? Is it in fact a common kind of dementia in some old people or it is serious dementia disease? Is there a medical treatment can gives hope and cure for those with Alzheimer’s disease?
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be defined as an abnormal changes in the brain cells that affecting the memory and some mental capabilities. …show more content…
Most patients will live eight or ten years after been diagnosed. With all these symptoms, the patient will shows significant social and occupational functions very different from before.
There is no just a doing single test to diagnose this disease, but by ruling out the symptoms and the other conditions by the professional doctors, they can know and eliminate the disease. There are many ways and tests to identify the Alzheimer’s disease and all of them are important and essential. And they include: blood tests, mental testes, brain scans by Computed tomography scan (CT scan), Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI scan) and Positron emission tomography (PET scan) and physical and genetic exams.
It is unknown to put an exact cause for this disease. However, researchers set some main factors that may be increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease which include the age, environmental factors, abnormal genes, disorders in the immune system and specific abnormal proteins in the patient’s brain. Experts believe that the patient’s brain contains abnormal clumps and knots, called tangles and plaques. These tangles and plaques contain a type of protein that may degenerate the nerve cells and kill them. Moreover, Researches says that the people with low education levels have the high risk to get Alzheimer’s disease. Also, Some researches showed a strong connection between head injuries and getting Alzheimer’s disease. So that, after studying the …show more content…
These medicines proves to make some improvement in memory, with a little side effect. In addition, these drugs effective just to the mild and moderate stages of AD. They treat the anxiety, upset behaviors, and sleep disturbance. Alzheimer’s disease patients should follow regular care from their doctors, to prevent any sudden symptoms happen, like bones fractures injuries, pneumonia, mental problems and urinary tract infections

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