Alzheimer's+Disease-Description

=Description for Alzheimer's Disease=

Alzheimer's is a form of dementia, or loss of brain functions. It destroys memory, judgement, and also scary changes in behavior. People with this disease also become helpless, because they forget how to do the ordinary tasks of their daily life.

In 1901, a German neurologist named Alois Alzheimer went to work at a mental hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. He met a women named August D., who was showing symptoms of memory loss at age 51. Her brain functions rapidly got worse and after about 4 years, she died. He later examined her brain and found it was shrunken and dry. In 1910, a man named Emil Kraepelin officially named it Alzheimer's disease.

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