Seven Facts You Should Know About Alzheimer's Disease
Scientists believe that whatever triggers Alzheimer's begins to damage the brain years before any symptoms present. When symptoms emerge, nerve cells that process, store and retrieve information have already begun to degenerate and die. Specifically, Amyloid plaques, clumps of protein fragments, accumulate outside the brain's nerve cells hindering the brain's function.
By — Last Modified: 09/27/2012, First Published: 11/16/2011
