In 1901, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist, identified the first case of what became known as Alzheimer's disease, he studied his patient who within five years of study died from it, that is when the disease was announced publicly. The Alzheimer’s disease was only linked to those of a certain age about 45-65 and only later was it discovered that the disease itself could be linked to all ages. Eventually, the term Alzheimer's disease was formally adopted in medical nomenclature to describe individuals of all ages with the characteristic common symptom pattern, disease course, and neuropathology.
There is no particular cause that would cause the disease, at least not to this day. There are several believes of how this disease might manifest itself. That is aluminum contamination, viruses such as herpes simplex I virus (HSV1), head trauma as well as defective DNA repair. In familial-inherited AD, genetic defects identified include mutations on Chromosomes 14 (in gene......
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