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What Causes Alzheimers Disease

Scientists are still trying to fully understand the cause or causes of Alzheimer's disease. In the meantime, it's helpful to understand the hallmarks of Alzheimer's - plaques and tangles - and the risk factors that affect a person's likelihood of developing the disease.

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Vascular Dementia

Vascular dementia results from impaired blood flow to the brain. After Alzheimer's disease, it's one of the second most common types of dementia, along with Lewy body dementia. It was formerly called multi-infarct dementia because it was thought to only be caused by small strokes. However, the name ....read entire article


Alzheimers Disease Symptoms

Symptoms

Alzheimer's disease may start with slight memory loss and confusion, but it eventually leads to irreversible mental impairment that destroys a person's ability to remember, reason, learn and imagine.

Memory loss
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