Etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease
Words: 912 Pages: 3 6007Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating and, unfortunately, common illness that is characterized by extensive neuronal atrophy, memory loss, personality changes, and is the most common form of dementia. The atrophy is especially prevalent in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus. Patients are found to have severe loss of acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter) in these areas along with a corresponding loss of neurons in the basal nucleus and nearby cholinergic cell groups (Vanderah, Nolte, & Gould, 2016). With these being the general affected […]