A degenerative disease of the BRAIN characterized by the insidious onset of DEMENTIA. Impairment of MEMORY, judgment, attention span, and problem solving skills are followed by severe APRAXIAS and a global loss of cognitive abilities. The condition primarily occurs after age 60, and is marked pathologically by severe cortical atrophy and the triad of SENILE PLAQUES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; and NEUROPIL THREADS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1049-57)

A dementia that results in progressive memory loss, impaired thinking, disorientation, and changes in personality and mood starting in late middle age and leads in advanced cases to a profound decline in cognitive and physical functioning and is marked histologically by the degeneration of brain neurons especially in the cerebral cortex and by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and plaques containing beta-amyloid. It is characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability and progressive loss of mental ability.

A progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of function and death of nerve cells in several areas of the brain leading to loss of cognitive function such as memory and language.

A dementia which is an incurable disease of unknown cause, starting in late middle age or in old age, that results in progressive memory loss, impaired thinking, disorientation, and changes in personality and mood, that leads in advanced cases to a profound decline in cognitive and physical functioning, and that is marked histologically by the degeneration of brain neurons especially in the cerebral cortex and by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and plaques containing beta-amyloid.

Synonyms:

Alzheimer's disease (disorder)

Alzheimer Dementia, Presenile

Presenile Alzheimer Dementia

Alzheimer Disease

AD

sporadic Alzheimer's disease

Disease, Alzheimer

Dementia in Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease, NOS

Disease, Alzheimer's

DAT - Dementia Alzheimer's type

Dementia, Presenile Alzheimer

Alzheimers Dementia

Alzheimers disease

Dementia, Alzheimer Type

Dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Alzheimer Type Dementia

[X]Dementia in Alzheimer's disease

ALZHEIMERS DIS

AD - Alzheimer's disease

Dementia in Alzheimer's disease (disorder)

Alzheimer Dementia

Alzheimer's Dementia

Alzheimer's

Dementia, Presenile

Alzheimers

Dementia in Alzheimer's disease, unspecified (disorder)

[X]Dementia in Alzheimer's disease (disorder)

ALZHEIMER DIS