Alzheimer
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia that involves memory deficits, personality changes, language problems, confusion, disorientation, and loss of reasoning and judgment skills. Alzheimer’s disease also depends on genetic and environmental factors: lifestyle and family history also influence the course of the disease.
Early diagnosis allows quicker intervention, avoiding a rapid worsening.
In patients with Alzheimer’s disease, the brain undergoes a process of atrophy and presents protein aggregates (beta-amyloid plaques and tau protein clusters) that seem to adversely affect the survival and function of neurons.
The role of protein aggregates is not yet completely clear, but scientific evidence confirms how they interfere with normal interneuronal nerve transmission (between neurons) and are capable of causing nerve cell death.
For this reason, their presence constitutes a non-invasive biomarker of neurodegeneration.
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