Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and irreversible neurodegenerative form of dementia. It leads the patients to many symptoms such as memory difficulties (that tend to get worse with time), forgetting well-known places and people, inability to process questions and many others. It can also affect the performance of domestic tasks and self-care. The disease was first reported in 1907 by Dr. Alois Alzheimer that discovered changes in a woman’s brain after her death. He found out that there was a shrinking in her cortex, more specifically on the memory, language and judgment area. He also discovered an abnormal accumulation of “plaques”, which are abnormal clusters of Beta-amyloid protein, and tangles, that are twisted strands of phosphorylated
