Effects of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease tangles the brain's nerve cells and can cause memory loss, confusion, and disorientation. Learn more about the effects of Alzheimer's disease.
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Transcript: Effects of Alzheimer's Disease
A Healthy Brain
The healthy brain is made up of millions of interconnecting nerve cells, called neurons. Neurons constantly communicate with each other by sending signals through tentacle-like connections called axons and dendrites.How Alzheimer's Disease Affects the Brain
The brain of a patient with Alzheimer's disease is much different. The orderly, organized arrangement of nerve cells found in a healthy brain become entangled, full of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. The plaques and tangles interfere with the normal activity between neurons in the area of the brain responsible for intellectual thought.Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease affects people in different ways. The disease is slowly progressive from onset. Memory loss, confusion, disorientation, and poor judgment are a few of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.Copyrighted animations provided by Blausen Medical.
