General Info about Alzheimer's Disease
"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more
wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There
seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the
powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in
any other of our intelligences," wrote Jane Austen,
the English writer. This most wonderful gift, if you
loose, can make your life chaotic.
The enduring disorder in memory retention is known as
Alzheimer's disease. Generally, the disease affects the
brain tissues after one reaches forty years. Once
affected, Alzheimer's gradually destroys the ability to
reason, remember, imagine and learn. It is marked by
abnormal clumps (plaques) and irregular knots (neurofibrillary
tangles) of brain cells. For reasons not well understood,
these plaques and tangles take over healthy brain tissues,
devastating the areas of the brain associated with
intellectual function.
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"Alzheimer's
can be called the long good-bye. You
grieve about the loved one from the moment
you begin to observe the gradual loss of
memory and the speech and personality
changes, because they are incurable. The
person you love is gradually changing
before your eyes. You say good-bye many
times until the final good-bye at
death."
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