An Analysis Of Alzheimer's Disease

Our brains go through many changes as we age just like the rest of our bodies. Alzheimer Disease is a progressive loss of structure, function and death of neurons which gradually declines the cognitive abilities that affects multiple systems. AD affects the cerebral cortex which is the outer and main part responsible for memory, learning and reasoning, language resulting in destroying the qualities that forms an individual’s distinctive character. When compared, many fewer nerve cells and synapses are found in Alzheimer’s brain than in a healthy brain which leads to fewer connections among the living cells, hence, resulting in significant brain shrinkage. As the hippocampus shrink vastly, the brain loses to think, plan and remember or store new memories.