Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive mental disorder that slowly destroys memory and other important mental process through the destruction and blocking of vital neurons that than cause the brain to erode. Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and it effects over 5.7 million Americans this year, and that number is supposed to rise to 14 million by 2050. It has no cure and its death rate has risen to over 123% between 2000 and 2015. It seems like Alzheimer’s is on the rise at an alarming rate, and that should be especially terrifying to the generations of today because they will be the right age to acquire Alzheimer's by or near 2050. This should not be a concern because the tremendous medical fields will have solved this riddle by then. Alzheimer’s was discovered by Alois Alzheimer in 1906 when he discovered a patient named Auguste Deter had unusual tissue changes in her brain and had symptoms of memory loss, language problems, and unpredictable behavior. Alzheimer then examined Deter’s brain and found abnormal clumps and neurofibrillary tangles made up of the protein tau. This discovery prompted the disease named after the doctor who found it, …show more content…
It constantly degenerates one's mental capabilities and there is no cure in which to fight this. There have been some treatments that help fight the symptoms of Alzheimer's, but it is not enough to counteract the immense strain it puts on the body. It degenerates the physical, emotional, and psychological parts of the human body. That is something that is very difficult to fight. Alzheimer's is set to increase due to the increased life spans of people, and so it is important that the scientific community find a more definitive treatment to help fight this. With the rapid increase medical technologies, there is sure to be a cure within the next decades that can finally kill the mental