What is Alzheimer's disease?
Alzheimer's disease is a brain disease that progresses slowly and insidiously. It is a disease that generally begins at an advanced age and progresses with forgetfulness, difficulty in remembering, speech impairment over time, difficulty in finding words, and personality and behavioral disorders.
Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease;
Alzheimer's disease Diagnosis is made by memory and memory-related history taken by the patient and his/her relatives, neurological examination, memory-related tests and brain imaging. The patient or his/her relative is diagnosed by forgetting things, forgetting names, frequently asking the same thing again, in addition to recent memory loss, by detecting shrinkage in some parts of the brain and low memory tests in brain MRI.
Symptoms of Alzheimer's disease;
Being forgetful enough to affect daily life (inability to remember people's names, events), inability to do daily tasks (such as cooking), difficulty in finding words, inability to remember dates and known routes, difficulty in making decisions even on very simple matters, calculation Inability to do things, difficulty in practical thinking, mixing up the places of things (putting them somewhere else), change in behavior and mood, change in personality traits, blaming people and avoiding responsibility are the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease. Treatment;
There is no treatment that stops the progression of the disease
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