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1 Alzheimer’s Disease Jared Briggs University of Phoenix PSY/390 Learning and Cognition 04/26/2021 Ricky Fenwick

2 Alzheimer’s Disease A form of dementia due to accumulating brain pathology (specifically, amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles). The terrible disease afflicts around 5.7 million people in the United States, including nearly one-third of people aged 85 and older. The disease effects women more often than men, although that may be because women have a longer life expectancy. Currently there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease (Gluck et al., 2021) Symptoms The earliest symptoms of the disease are episodic memory disruptions, such as failures to remember recent conversations or visitors. Later symptoms include a marked decline in semantic memory, forgetting the names of acquaintances or the layout of familiar locations such the neighborhood supermarket. Patients may ask the same question repeatedly because they forget that they have both asked that question and have it answered before. Effects of cognition Conditioning and skill memory are among the skills that survive the longest in patients. Patients can still remember how to make coffee. They can even acquire new skill like mirror tracing and rotary pursuit, even though they may not remember verbal info for more than a few minutes. By the late stages of the disease memory fails completely and along with that other cognitive systems begin to fail as well. Patients who are in the late stages may display personality changes, disorientation, loss of judgement, confusion, loss of speech, and eventually the inability to perform daily tasks such as bathing, dressing, and eating. Patients who are late stage may require round-the-clock supervision and professional care (Gluck et al., 2021).

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