Alzheimer’s Disease

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Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s is a disease that affects the memory, thinking and language parts of the brain. The most common type of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, the person living in the advanced stages of daily activities can not do.

What Causes ?

Despite many years of scientific research, the exact cause of Alzheimer’s disease has not yet been determined.

  • Advanced age
  • Having a family history of Alzheimer’s
  • Having Down syndrome
  • Past head traumas
  • Sleeping disorders
  • Insufficient physical activity
  • Obesity
  • Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke
  • High blood pressure and high cholesterol
  • Inadequate, unbalanced and unhealthy nutrition

What are The Symptoms ?

  • Repeating the same questions and sentences constantly
  • To be forgetful enough to affect daily life
  • Difficulty in solving problems or making plans
  • Not being able to do many things in daily life
  • Losing goods
  • To forget and mix dates
  • Difficulty in the concept of road and direction
  • Difficulty finding the words
  • Remembering the old dates
  • Difficulty in practical thinking
  • Difficulty in decision making even on the simplest issues
  • Being unaware of the environment, location and moment with drawal from work or social activities
  • They begin to experience unprecedented problems in speaking and writing.
  • Changes in mood and personality characteristics

How is Alzheimer‘s Diagnosed?

First of all, the person with the above-mentioned symptoms and their relatives meet with the physicians. After the psychiatric and neurological examination, information is given about the condition of the person.

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