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Essay / Alzheimer's Disease Essay - 821
Every day, a new disease or treatment is discovered. There are still many unanswered questions and many answers yet to be found. Doctors, medical treatment centers and people are trying every day to understand what Alzheimer's disease really is and what it involves. Alzheimer's disease has many common symptoms and effects in both men and women. The common, but confusing, name for Alzheimer's disease is Dementia. People often confuse these two names because of the effects or symptoms associated with the name. Few people know exactly what Alzheimer's disease is or what causes it. But there are important warning signs that lead people to conclude that it is a sad, uncontrollable disease. Alzheimer's disease controls the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which are associated with a person's behavior, language, and personality. The lobes of the brain usually shrink when affected and the symptoms and signs usually differ in men and women and occur at different stages of each of their lives. Symptoms and signs may also be affected by the extent of brain shrinkage. Due to damage to the temporal front of a person's brain, people often call this frontotemporal dementia, which is another common misname for Alzheimer's disease. Because of all the common names for Alzheimer's disease, people have also confused the warning signs. People think that each disease name has different effects and warning signs, which is false. The first known warning signs are depression, anxiety, which are other forms of illness that do not develop into Alzheimer's disease, but are important warning signs that should be taken seriously. Above the middle of the article, I decided to gain more knowledge about the genetic, biological and environmental factors of this disease and see if there might be other treatments for these specific areas. But doctors and researchers will always explain that there is no complete treatment but many different treatments to slow this disease where it most affects the brain. By deepening their understanding of this disease, doctors and researchers can bring family and friends closer together and allow people to fully understand this devastating disease that affects their loved ones. This will also allow people to understand with this disease and even treatments will not be able to stop Alzheimer's disease from taking over. But for now, treating this disease will be difficult, as it can never be completely cured by this twisted disease known as Alzheimer's..