Alzheimer disease

pre senile dementia

Medics and philosophers of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome associated old age with mind weakening, and only in 1901 a German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer noticed a sickness case that lately was named with his own name.

Alzheimer disease is a mental disorder

The main risk factor is the old age.

Disorder begins gradually, insensibly

And it’s progressing constantly.

"Tangles" of a protein called "tau" occur in Alzheimer's patients' brains-causing neurons to lose their function and increasing memory loss

Diagnostics:The clinical diagnosis is usually based on patient’s history (life anamnesis), his relatives life history and clinical observations (family anamnesis), taking in consideration typical neurological and neuropsychological features and excluding alternative diagnoses

Characteristics:4 development stagesPredementia- Memory loss- Tougher time carrying- Distracted attention

Early dementia- Progressing memory and motor skills

loss- Declining normal cognitive functions- Shrinking vocabulary

Moderate dementia- Loss of independency- Speech and reading disorder- Coordination disorder- Long-memory loss- Aggression and emotional lability

Advanced dementia- Full dependence on care- Hard speech degradation- Apathy and depletion- Basic motor skills loss

Diagnosis methodology.

There exist no drugs that can stop Alzheimer’s disease

But there’s still hope…

ConclusionsAlzheimer’s disease is very hard to be

diagnosed on early stagesThis means, most of humanity is in risk groupAlzheimer’s disease cannot be stopped, but it

can be struggled: this is why there still exist a lot of centers and funds conscripted to fight this illness

Bibliography 1. Wiki Alzheimer -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease 2. Wiki Russian Alzheimer - http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Болезнь_

Альцгеймера 3. 4 stages of Alzheimer's disease -

http://alzcommunity.com/personal-finance/submenu-1/66-4-stages-of-alzheimers-disease.html

4. Gesellschaft und Demenz - http://www.wegweiser-demenz.de/gesellschaft-und-demenz.html

5. Understanding Alzheimer's - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/fall07/articles/fall07pg8-10.html

6. Найден способ приостановить болезнь Альцгеймера - http://www.aif.ru/health/article/30794