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What is Alzheimer's Disease?
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Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and is generally diagnosed in patients over the age of 65. The most common symptom is the inability to acquire new memories and difficulty in recalling recently observed facts. |
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What types of memory are affected by Alzheimer's Disease? |
Short term memory deteriorates first, followed by episodic memory. The hippocampus is the first structure damaged and accounts for difficulty remembering recent events, without any trouble remembering events from long ago. |
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What else does Alzheimer's Disease affect? |
It also affects working memory; central executive functioning becomes impaired, making complex tasks more difficult to coordinate and visuospatial processing also weakens. |
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What happens as the disease advances?
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As the disease advances, parts of memory which were previously intact also become damaged, and eventually, all reasoning, attention and language abilities are disrupted. |
