Alzheimer’s disease
@article{Burns2009AlzheimersD, title={Alzheimer’s disease}, author={A. Burns and S. Iliffe}, journal={BMJ : British Medical Journal}, year={2009}, volume={338} }
In this, the second of two review articles about dementia, we focus on Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common cause of dementia. Dementia is a clinical syndrome characterised by a cluster of symptoms and signs manifested by difficulties in memory, disturbances in language, psychological and psychiatric changes, and impairments in activities of daily living. Alzheimer’s disease is a specific disease that affects about 6% of the population aged over 65 and increases in incidence with age… CONTINUE READING
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