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    Alzheimer´s Disease II
    Alzheimer´s Disease II
    Alzheimer´s Disease II
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    Alzheimer´s Disease II

    By Juan Moisés De La Serna

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    What are the symptoms? How is it diagnosed? How many people is affected by it? Learn the latest research about the disease of Alzheimer

    Every day there are new discoveries about the disease of Alzheimer, but these usually are available for specialists and academics in the topic.

    This book aims to resolve this problem and show the latest advances about the disease of Alzheimer.

    Objective:

    The objective of the e-book is to serve as a first approximation to those people that have in themselves or in their families, the disease of Alzheimer.

    This book tries to show in a clear way, the results of the latest research about the disease of Alzheimer, and with it , to answer to the most relevant questions, what are the symptoms? How is it diagnosed? And how many people is affected by it?

    Recipients:

    -Professionals from the health system that have to, or want to learn more about the diagnosis and treatment of the Alzheimer´s disease.

    -Professors that want to offer updated information to their students, about the Alzheimer´s disease

    -To any person that has received the diagnosis of Alzheimer´s disease and their families, for them to know what to do in light of this disease.

    Topic

    Following there will be a detailed explanation about each of the principal topics of this piece:

    -Symptoms of Alzheimer: The families usually are the first ones to notice the symptoms associated with this disease, but for this they should be well informed of which these are.

    -Alzheimer´s disease: Once the first symptoms have been detected, is adequate to get in touch with an specialist to determine which is the best way to intervene.

    -Extension of the Alzheimer: Although the number is not the important, since each case is important because is the life of a person, the big numbers inform how this disease is spreading worldwide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateJul 12, 2017
    ISBN9781547508099
    Alzheimer´s Disease II

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      Alzheimer´s Disease II - Juan Moisés De La Serna

      PREFACE

      What are the symptoms? How is it diagnosed? How many people is affected by it? Learn the latest research about the disease of Alzheimer

      Every day there are new discoveries about the disease of Alzheimer, but these usually are available for specialists and academics in the topic.

      This book aims to resolve this problem and show the latest advances about the disease of Alzheimer.

      Objective:

      The objective of the e-book is to serve as a first approximation to those people that have in themselves or in their families, the disease of Alzheimer.

      This book tries to show in a clear way, the results of the latest research about the disease of Alzheimer, and with it, to answer to the most relevant questions, what are the symptoms? How is it diagnosed? And how many people is affected by it?

      Recipients:

      -Professionals from the health system that have to, or want to learn more about the diagnosis and treatment of the Alzheimer´s disease.

      -Professors that want to offer updated information to their students, about the Alzheimer´s disease

      -To any person that has received the diagnosis of Alzheimer´s disease and their families, for them to know what to do in light of this disease.

      Topic

      Following there will be a detailed explanation about each of the principal topics of this piece:

      -Symptoms of Alzheimer: The families usually are the first ones to notice the symptoms associated with this disease, but for this they should be well informed of which these are.

      -Alzheimer´s disease: Once the first symptoms have been detected, is adequate to get in touch with a specialist to determine which is the best way to intervene.

      -Extension of the Alzheimer: Although the number is not the important, since each case is important because is the life of a person, the big numbers inform how this disease is spreading worldwide.

      The Alzheimer has arrived, has entered in the homes

      it has touched one of the family members, we all should help.

      No one wanted it here, is truly terrible

      It will only makes us suffer, and will create problems.

      Everyone together united, let´s help the ill

      And with it, reunited, we´ll confront the problem.

      —LOVE—

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      INDEX

      PREFACE

      INDEX

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      CHAPTER 1: SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF ALZHEIMERS

      CHAPTER 2. MEDICAL TESTS FOR THE DETECTION OF ALZHEIMER.

      CHAPTER 3. DIAGNOSIS OF ALZHEIMER

      CHAPTER 4. ALZHEIMER´S EXTENSION

      CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSIONS

      ABOUT JUAN MOISÉS DE LA SERNA

      Dedicated to my parents

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I want to use this opportunity to thank all the people that have contributed in different ways in making this text, especially to Quazi Imam. MD Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist., Medical Director of the Arlington Hospital Texas Memorial (U.S.A) and to the staff at the Center of State Reference that work with people with the State Reference Centre for the Care of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and other Dementias of Spain (CRE Alzheimer), and specially to the people that have answered to these first aspects of Alzheimer, Ph.D. Elena Gonzalez, Responsible of the Area of Information, Documentation, Research and Evaluation; Ph.D. Francisco Javier Gay, Neurologist and Ph.D. Beatriz Onecha, Social worker/Sociologist; and to Ph.D. Beatriz González Jiménez, technical director in Center for Research and Treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (C.I.T.E.A. Seville).

      From here, I would like to thank you for the wonderful translation work of Jacqueline Nunez (jmnunez@outlook.com.ar).

      CHAPTER 1: SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF ALZHEIMERS

      Is important to know that from the clinical aspect there is a distinction between symptoms and signs, at the time of describing what´s happening to a person, and to establish the right diagnosis.

      One of the problems that health specialists have to face at the time of seeing a patient is the diagnosis, since from this, the treatment is planned and the evolution of the illness.

      For this we have tools that provide information about what´s happening in the patient´s body regarding physical illnesses, but when we talk about mental health, the diagnosis gets more complicated, since there is no data that can be collected in

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