Every 4 seconds someone is diagnosed with alzheimer's disease It is known as a common cause of dementia affecting over 40 million people worldwide and yet finding a cure still allods researchers today Doctor Alois Alzheimer a german psychiatrist first described the symptoms in 1901 where a hospital patient had sleeping issues memory problems mood disorders and general confusion After the patient passed away he got to do an altosie to test his idea that perhaps her symptoms were caused by irregularities in the brain structure What he found were visible differences in brain tissue in the form of misfolded proteins called plaques in nurofibularie tangles Those plaques and tangles work together to break down the brain structure Plaques arise when another protein in the fatty membrane surrounding nerve cells get cut up by a particular enzyme resulting in betaamiloid protiens These are sticky and have a tendency to clump together that form what researchers know as plaques These clumps lock signaling and therefore communication between cells and also trigger emone reactions that cause destruction of disables nerve cells In this disease neurofibrillary tangles are built from a protein known as tau proteins
