Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by abnormal clumps (amyloid plaques) and tangled bundles of fibres (neurofibrillary tangles) composed of misplaced proteins in the brain. It is by far the most common cause of dementia (Please see Fig. 1). First described and named after the German neurologist Alois Alzheimer, it can occur sporadically, or in a genetic form called Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD). Victims of AD are frequently unaware that they have the …showed first 75 words of 3258 total…

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