Alzheimer's Disease Term Paper by Top Papers

The paper discusses Alzheimer's that is a progressive deterioration of the brain recognized most commonly in old age. The paper explains that in 1906, a German physician, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, discovered a collection of brain cell abnormalities identified as a progressive mental deterioration. The paper explains that his first case study involved a woman who had died after suffering for years with memory loss and other severe memory problems such as confusion and difficulty understanding the communication from others and generating communication herself. The paper reveals that during the woman's autopsy, the brain was found to have dense deposits outside and around the nerve cells and inside the nerve cells twisted bands of fiber were discovered. The paper relates that it is from Dr. Alzheimer's discoveries during the woman's autopsy that the mental disorder bears his name. The paper also reveals that in 2008, it is still only through an autopsy that a definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is given without doubt ("A History of Alzheimer's Disease", 2008).