Viewpoint: Yes, current claims for an Alzheimer's vaccine properly take into account the many defects that the disease causes in the brain—the claims are based on sound experimental results regarding beta-amyloid plaques. Viewpoint: No, a...

[Alzheimer's disease was first described by the German physician Alois Alzheimer in 1906. The disease is associated with a progressive decline in general cognitive function and a specific impairment in the ability to form new memories...

Alzheimer's disease (AD), named after the German physician Alois Alzheimer, is the most common form of dementia (the loss of mental function) among people age 65 and older. Alzheimer's disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that occurs...

Alzheimer's (pronounced ALTS-hih-merz) disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia (pronounced dih-MEN-sha). Dementia is a disease of the nervous system characterized by loss of certain mental abilities. This loss is severe enough to...

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disease that produces devastating mental deterioration. Its symptoms, which include increasingly poor memory, personality changes, and loss of concentration and judgment, are caused by the death of brain cells...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a diagnosis applied to a group of degenerative brain disorders with similar clinical and pathological characteristics. It is the most common cause of dementia, with onset of symptoms after the age of fifty-five years....

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disease that produces mental deterioration. Its symptoms, which include increasingly poor memory, personality changes, and loss of concentration and judgment, are caused by the death of brain cells, and a...

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disease that produces mental deterioration. Its symptoms, which include increasingly poor memory, personality changes, and loss of concentration and judgment, are caused by the physiological death of brain...

Degenerative brain disorder. It occurs in middle to late adult life, destroying neurons and connections in the cerebral cortex and resulting in significant loss of brain mass. The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer disease progresses from...

A degenerative, non-infectious and progressive disorder of the cerebral cortex of the human brain characterised by premature senile dementia becoming manifest in middle or old age. The cause is unknown and various theories have been proposed, including...

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Alzheimer's disease (AD), also called Alzheimer disease, and simply known as Alzheimer's, is a neurodegenerative disease that, in its most common form, is found in people over the age of 65. Approximately 24 million people worldwide have dementia of...