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Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease of brain cells

It is a neurodegenerative disease that has already been diagnosticado in our country to about 600,000.

He took the name of Dr. Alois Alzheimer, German neurologist (1864-1915) who in 1906 observed changes in brain tissue from a woman who had died for what he thought was a strange mental illness. These abnormal changes in brain tissue are known as hallmarks of this dementia.

It is mainly characterized by slow onset of symptoms that evolve over the years. It is a degenerative disease of brain cells-neurons, progressive nature and origin still unknown today.

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