The Causes and Characteristics of Alzheimer's Disease

This essay is about Alzheimer's disease. The author says that it is a neurodegenerative disease that worsens over time. Side effects are cognitive impairment, confusion, poor judgment, language disturbances, visual complaints, agitation, hallucination, withdrawal, seizures, increased muscle tone, myoclonus, and mutism. Alzheimer's is primarily hereditary and occurs in people ages 60-65. The causes of Alzheimer's are speculated to be plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.
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