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| | About Alzheimer's Disease |
 | | AD is characterized by progressive loss of memory and cognitive faculties, including memory loss, language deterioration, impaired visuospatial skills, poor judgment, and an attitude of indifference. |
 | | AD affects those areas of the brain in which higher thought processes are carried out, which leads to failure of reasoning, delusions, and hallucination--in a word, dementia. |
 | | Since AD is a late-onset disease, not affecting the majority of patients before the age of 65 and clearly fatally damaging a previously healthy brain, it is important to understand what events occur before neurons are irreversibly damaged. |
| www.ohsu.edu /nsi/faculty/reddyh/lab/aboutalz.html (1786 words) |
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