What is the Alzheimer's disease and its symptoms?

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Medicine - Neurology, Psychiatry, Addiction, grade: 10.0, , course: English 102, language: English, abstract: The Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia on elderly people. A degenerative disorder of the brain which kills brain chromosomes, affecting the ability to think, behave, remember, and even talk in most severe cases. Alzheimer's disease has no cure, but there are many treatments and medicines today that can help delay its symptoms if diagnosed in the beginning. The name 'Alzheimer's disease' was given by Alois Alzheimer, whom was the doctor that first diagnosed this disease. Alois Alzheimer had recently graduated from a medicine school and got his first job as physician of a mentally ill woman. Alois had to follow this poor woman on all of her travels; this experience gave him the fling for psychiatry and brain disorders.