Alzheimer's Disease Outline

Alzheimer 's disease
Wendy M Tolliver
PSY/340
November 28, 2011
Melynda Marchi

Alzheimer Disease
Alzheimer 's disease received its name from Dr. Alois Alzheimer (a German physician). Dr. Alzheimer detected bizarre changes in the brain tissue of a woman who had died (in 1906) of a bizarre mental illness. He notices numerous abnormal clumps (amyloid plaques) and twisted bundles of fibers (neurofibrillary tangles). Scientist of today has discovered the plaques and tangles in the brain are recognized as the key signs of Alzheimer 's disease.

Alzheimer 's disease is a brain disease that progressively destroys recollection and thoughts skills and, ultimately, the capability to perform simple everyday jobs. Memory problems are one of
Dementia is a decline in thinking abilities, recollection, and logic skills that have a negative impact with an individual’s everyday lifestyle and activities. Vascular dementia (blood-vessel illness within the brain) is another form of dementia and Parkinson 's disease.

While the source of Alzheimer’s continues to be a mystery, many scientist concur Alzheimer’s, as many ordinary, severe conditions, developed are due to various factors, not just a isolated cause. Age is a chief possibility for Alzheimer’s. The majority of individuals with Alzheimer’s are age 65 or older. However, there remains the small percentage of individuals with Alzheimer’s that is caused by rare genetic; which unfortunately tends to attack younger individuals.
Unfortunately, Alzheimer’s is an irreversible, progressive brain disease. Even when individuals are free of symptoms, toxic changes takes place in the brain. Abnormal deposits of proteins form amyloid plaques and tangles all through the brain and the healthy neurons begin to perform less proficiently. Eventually, neurons lose their ability to function and correspond with each other, and ultimately death
The more neurons die; the affected brain regions begin to get smaller. By the end stage of Alzheimer’s, damage is extensive, and brain tissue has shrunk considerably.
After death, Alzheimer’s can be diagnosed, by connecting clinical measures with a theory test of brain tissue and pathology in an autopsy. However physicians now have numerous methods and tools to help them establish accurately if a individual is having memory problems due to Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia.
It is projected 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, including over 200,000 individuals under age 65 with younger onset Alzheimer’s disease. The number of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and dementias will increase each year as the U.S. population continues to increase. The number will increase fast in future. Alzheimer’s is not a characteristic of aging; it worsens over time and it is terminal. At present it is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. There is presently no cure for Alzheimer’s, but new treatments are possibility as a result of accelerating insight into the biology of the disease. Research has revealed that efficient care and support can maintain excellent quality of life for individuals over the path of the disease from diagnosis to the termination of