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Alzheimers
Alzheimer's Disorder is an attack to the brain's neurons or nerve cells, And this cases loss of memory, logical thinking and speaking skills or even behavior skills. And the Doctor, Alois alzheimer, A german physician discovered alzheimer’s disorder. Alois alzheimer's named the disorder after him. So people will remember his name after he was gone. The cause of the disease is brain cells die off over time due to old age . And you can start showing symptoms at around thirty to forty at the earliest. And Alzheimer's can be inherited over time and skip some generations while the family still carries it for their next of kin. And symptoms are lack of motor skills and and there is no cure but there is a ton of medication to help slow …show more content…

It is the most common cause of premature senility.”
So basicly the disorder is a symptom of old age and can be passed on for parent to child.
And will cause loss of memory and damage your thought process
List all possible effects. The symptoms or effect on the body, Basically worst case scenario .You will repeat statements and questions, not realizing you have asked them before. Forgetting conversations, Appointments,or events. Routinely misplace possessions, often putting them in unusual places. Get lost in familiar places, or eventually forget the names of family members. Having trouble of finding the right words to identify objects. Or expressing thought and emotion in conversations.

Is alzheimer's a sex-linked disease, and where is it located? Yes alzheimer's is sex-linked in most causes. Women are more likely to get the disease Alzheimer's. Like X,X,Y the X carries the alzheimer's disease and the X came from the mother. So the female will wind up getting the disease Altho there is nothing to show about a particular chromosome that has been located but. there are some signs of proteins that act abnormally or out of the …show more content…

The disease Alzheimer's is dominant which means it was inherited from one of the parent's. So if the infant winds up to be a girl, she got the disease from her mother. In most cases that would happen but not all the time. Some medication that a person suffering from alzheimer's can take is called donepezil. Just “ten milligrams” Of this stuff can improve cognition and “mental health”, And can also slowdown Alzheimer’s a little but nothing steady. geng therapy ? There are many gene therapy’s out there but, the best one I could find is, located at Imperial College based in London. They are working on a study of gene therapy that basicly. Implants a virus in the human brain and they attack the sick brain cells. As of today there is no current cure to this disease. While there is many people and organisations looking and investing for a cure there is not enough knowledge on this disease.
What test can be done, and is genetic counseling an option, And who is more prone to get Alzheimer's. Yes there are a lot of test and trials out there and there are a lot of them that only reduce the effects for a while. And yes again genetic counseling is an option to a

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