Alzheimer's Disease
The details to how bad Alzheimer's Disease really is!
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease Brain
This is what a person's brain with Alzheimer's Disease looks like. The brain looks like this for several reasons. The first one is plagues which are microscopic clumps of a protein fragment called beta-amyloid. There are tangles which are twisted strands of the protein tau. Another is loss of communication between bran cells. Brain cells are responsible for memory, learning and communication. These connections, or synapses transmit information from cell to cell.
Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
This is a PET scan of a Alzheimer's brain. When people are checked to see if they have Alzheimer's. Doctors check to see if people have impaired memory or thinking skills, they also check to see if the person exhibits changes in personality or behaviors. They also check the degree of your memory or thinking impairment. Doctors also think about how your thinking problems affect your ability to function in daily life, and they check the cause of the symptoms.