Alzheimer's Disease

Introduction to Alzheimer's                  Alzheimer's disease is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain. It is first described by the German neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915) in 1905. This disease worsens with advancing age, although there is no evidence that it is cause by the aging process.         The average life expectancy of a person with the disease is between five and ten years, but some patients today can live up to 15 years due to improvements in care and …

…are either frauds or ignorant14.         When people realizes that AD is a serious disease, perhaps as much as HIV, then maybe they will pay attention. The reason why there hasn't been a cure is because scientists tries to attract grants by working on a problem that people think is serious and controversial. If there was as much attention that was paid to AIDS as there was in AD, then maybe there will be an answer.