Alzheimer's disease is a very serious condition in which your brain starts destroying memory and disabling other mental functions. This happens because brain cells start to degenerate an die. There is no cure for Alzheimer's, only medications that can temporarily help and prevent it longer. The main symptoms of Alzheimer's are increasing forgetfulness, difficulty organizing thoughts, not noticing things are wrong, repeating questions and statements not realizing they've already said it, forgetting conversations/appointments and not remembering them later on, misplacing items, forgetting names of family members or people that are close to you, forgetting what day or season it is, not seeing correctly, reading and writing declines, not able to express thoughts, not able to focus/concentrate, forgets they're cooking and food burns, can't perform basic tasks, and changes in personality - such as: Depression, Anxiety, Social Withdrawal, Mood Swings, Distrust, Irritability, Aggressiveness, Changes in Sleep, Wandering, Loss of Inhibitions and Delusions.
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Scientists have also come with the conclusion that for most people environmental factors, lifestyle, and genetics affect the brain overtime. In fact less than 5% is guaranteed genetics. In an Alzheimer's infected brain, there are fewer cells and connections which ultimately results in a shrinkage in size. There are two types of abnormalities in Alzheimer's brain tissue known as plaques and tangles. A plaques are clumps of protein, also called beta-amyloid, damage and destroy brain cells in a couple of different ways, interfering with cell-to-cell communication being one. Tangles are failures of system transport. Tau, a protein in the body that is required to work to carry essential nutrients and materials in the body, twists and gets tangled which leads to failure in transporting. Tangles strongly impact in decline and death of brain
Scientists have also come with the conclusion that for most people environmental factors, lifestyle, and genetics affect the brain overtime. In fact less than 5% is guaranteed genetics. In an Alzheimer's infected brain, there are fewer cells and connections which ultimately results in a shrinkage in size. There are two types of abnormalities in Alzheimer's brain tissue known as plaques and tangles. A plaques are clumps of protein, also called beta-amyloid, damage and destroy brain cells in a couple of different ways, interfering with cell-to-cell communication being one. Tangles are failures of system transport. Tau, a protein in the body that is required to work to carry essential nutrients and materials in the body, twists and gets tangled which leads to failure in transporting. Tangles strongly impact in decline and death of brain