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Illustration showing parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer

Alzheimer Disease
Alzheimer disease, or AD, is a terminal disease of the central nervous
system that has no effective treatment or cure. Its most notable symptom
is dementia
beyond the effects of normal aging. It is named for Alois Alzheimer
(1864
disease at a medical meeting in 1906.
the loss of a persons memory and other cognitive functions1915), a German doctor who first described a patient with the

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