Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia...
178 KB (18,887 words) - 14:02, 18 May 2024
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the most common cause of dementia; it usually occurs in old age. Familial Alzheimer's disease...
32 KB (3,621 words) - 17:25, 4 May 2024
Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease....
17 KB (1,766 words) - 23:01, 6 May 2024
The Alzheimer's Association is a nonprofit voluntary health organization that focuses on Alzheimer's disease care, support and research. Jerome H. Stone...
7 KB (782 words) - 08:26, 28 April 2024
The biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, is not yet very well understood. Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been identified...
65 KB (7,759 words) - 06:24, 23 May 2024
Neurodegenerative diseases include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, multiple...
63 KB (7,018 words) - 10:15, 23 May 2024
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (redirect from Boxer disease)
personnel". Alzheimer's Research & Therapy. 6 (1): 4. doi:10.1186/alzrt234. PMC 3979082. PMID 24423082. "Alzheimer's & Dementia". Alzheimer's Association...
61 KB (6,739 words) - 20:09, 2 May 2024
Dementia (category Aging-associated diseases)
Dementia is a syndrome associated with many neurodegenerative diseases (most commonly Alzheimer's), which is characterized by a general decline in cognitive...
196 KB (22,219 words) - 00:28, 24 May 2024
This article provides a list of media documents portraying Alzheimer's disease as a critical feature of the main plot: Death of a Salesman; While not...
49 KB (4,714 words) - 04:37, 16 May 2024
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease that affects millions of people across the globe. It is also a topic of interest in the...
88 KB (9,045 words) - 07:47, 20 April 2024
Dementia with Lewy bodies (redirect from Diffuse Lewy body disease)
individuals with Alzheimer's are often found on autopsy to also have Lewy bodies, DLB has been characterized as an Alzheimer disease-related dementia;...
136 KB (14,526 words) - 20:29, 19 April 2024
Frontotemporal dementia (redirect from Pick's disease)
is the second most prevalent type of early onset dementia after Alzheimer's disease.[citation needed] Men and women appear to be equally affected. FTD...
55 KB (5,661 words) - 15:06, 13 May 2024
The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by IOS Press covering the etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, genetics...
2 KB (152 words) - 00:14, 27 April 2023
advocate for Alzheimer’s disease. Representatives from existing Alzheimer associations in the USA (Alzheimer’s Association), UK (Alzheimer’s Society), Australia...
31 KB (2,635 words) - 04:21, 9 December 2023
Lewy body dementia (redirect from Lewy body disease)
behind that of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, even though LBD is the second most common dementia, after Alzheimer's. It is not only frustrating for...
30 KB (2,968 words) - 23:51, 21 May 2024
Studies have shown that Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients are at an increased risk of morbidity and mortality from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19...
34 KB (3,555 words) - 03:09, 19 March 2024
possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease. There is currently no approved cure or disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease except for lecanemab...
16 KB (1,807 words) - 14:15, 11 March 2024
Amyloid plaques (section Involvement in disease)
plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are characteristic features of Alzheimer's disease. The plaques are highly variable in shape and size; in tissue sections...
31 KB (3,370 words) - 05:18, 1 May 2024
Proteinopathy (redirect from Protein misfolding disease)
include such diseases as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (and a variant associated with mad cow disease) and other prion diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's...
62 KB (4,592 words) - 03:35, 12 May 2024
Donepezil (category Treatment of Alzheimer's disease)
donepezil or other similar agents alter the course or progression of Alzheimer's disease. Six-to-twelve-month controlled studies have shown modest benefits...
32 KB (2,823 words) - 08:39, 23 March 2024
Type 3 diabetes (category Alzheimer's disease)
Type 3 diabetes is a proposed pathological linkage between Alzheimer's disease and certain features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Specifically, the term...
25 KB (2,525 words) - 02:38, 22 May 2024
Maria Shriver (redirect from The Alzheimer's Project)
Shriver Highlights Alzheimer's Disease". Alzheimer's Association. Retrieved September 15, 2022. HBO. "HBO Documentaries: The Alzheimer's Project". Archived...
63 KB (5,487 words) - 10:34, 23 May 2024
Carol Jennings (category Alzheimer's disease activists)
campaigner and advocate for research into Alzheimer's Disease. She served as an honorary Vice-President of the Alzheimer's Society until her death in 2024. Through...
16 KB (1,592 words) - 13:46, 5 May 2024
regulatory case". alzheimers.org.uk/. 4 May 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020. "Alzheimer's Research UK or Alzheimer's Society". Alzheimer's Research UK. Retrieved...
24 KB (2,209 words) - 20:01, 3 April 2024
PMC 4518052. PMID 26224860. Alzheimer's Association (2012). "2012 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures". Alzheimer's & Dementia. 8 (2): 131–68. doi:10...
20 KB (2,446 words) - 00:41, 16 December 2023
Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the Hispanic/Latino population is becoming a topic of interest in AD research as Hispanics and Latinos are disproportionately...
57 KB (6,149 words) - 06:51, 29 December 2023
Pathologies and dementias of the nervous system such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are associated with tau proteins that have become hyperphosphorylated...
56 KB (6,277 words) - 06:22, 26 April 2024
Apathy (section Alzheimer's disease)
neurodegenerative conditions often associated with dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Although...
43 KB (4,885 words) - 01:30, 9 May 2024
Amyloid beta (category Alzheimer's disease)
component of the amyloid plaques found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. The peptides derive from the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP)...
43 KB (4,769 words) - 15:53, 8 May 2024
particular, Alzheimer's disease often co-occurs with vascular dementia. Mixed dementia is diagnosed when people have evidence of Alzheimer's disease and cerebrovascular...
23 KB (2,365 words) - 21:56, 14 April 2024