... returned and gave the other man a mince pie in which he questioned "Where's my chips"? Although it is very easy to make fun and make up jokes about a disorder or disease as I have done here, but the actual truth and the real nature of suffering with Alzheimer's disease is no joke at all. In this essay I am going to discuss the aetiology, pathology, and physiological response to a sufferer of this disease. History of a world of forgetfulness. The case of a 51 year old woman who was suffering severe memory problems, confusion, unexplained paranoia and eventually profound dementia was presented by German psychiatrist Dr. Alois Alzheimer, (Mera S L 1997). After her death Alzheimer carried out an autopsy on her brain. He described degenerated nerve cells in the cortical areas of the brain; the dead neurons produced a number of neuritic plaques. The inside of the nerve cell ...

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