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Thursday 6 March 2014

Loss OF MEMORY

Alzheimers disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. Alzheimers is a progressive and fatal brain disease.
It destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies or social life.
It is the most common form of dementia, a general term for the loss of memory and other intellectual abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life.

ALZHEIMERS AND THE BRAIN


Just like the rest of our bodies, our brains change as wt age. Serious memory loss, confusion and other major changes in the way our minds work are not a normal p.n i of aging. They may be a sign that brain cells are failing.

The brain has 100 billion nerve cells (neurons). Each nut v*1 cell communicates with many others to form networks. Nirvc cell networks have special jobs. Some are involved in thinking, learning and remembering. Others help us see, lifm

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