most common cause of dementia in older adults; a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the gradual loss of cognitive ability in association with the neuropathological findings of a [..]

A form of dementia that may appear in middle age but is more frequent among the aged.

Background: The Cleveland Clinic defines Alzheimer’s disease as “a progressive and fatal disease in which nerve cells in the brain degenerate and brain matter shrinks, resulting in impaired thinking, [..]

Pre-senile or senile dementia with progressive mental impairment. Characterized pathologically by the presence of excessive neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques.

Definition: Alzheimer’s disease is primarily an age-related, chronic, non-infectious disease of the sleep and crown areas of the brain, in which slowly and progressively the nerve cells die and thereby reduce the mental abilities. More than half of all dementia cases are applicable to AD.

Progressive, degenerative form of dementia that causes severe intellectual deterioration. First symptoms are impaired memory, followed by impaired thought and speech, and finally complete helplessness.

A progressive, degenerative disease that attacks the brain and results in impaired memory, thinking and behavior. Not all cases are inherited, but genes have been found for familial forms of Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive condition and symptoms get worse over time.

The disease that causes the victim to become dysfunctional due to degeneration of brain cells and severe memory loss.