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AA's case
- first patent auguste
- memory problems
- difficulty in speaking and understanding
- symptoms grew rapidly worse
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exocytosis
need to bind, pinches to vesicle, bind to membrane, go out
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mayo clinic lists how many disease that can cause dementia symptoms?
16
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doctors translated the phases of AD to what 3
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what is significant about the symptoms of progressive stages of AD
- some may not occur
- vary in sequence and severity and rate
- overlap of symptoms
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early mild AD
- frontal (planning, judgment)
- temporal (hippocampus, memory)
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stage 2a
- executive function (initiate and sequence purposeful activities)
- sleep (hypothalamus)
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stage 2b
- motor (shuffling gait)
- frontal (complex tasks, daily skills)
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after age 65 how many afflicted
1 in 8
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after 85, how many afflicted
1/2
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rank of leading cause of death
6th
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rank for AD the leading cause of death over 65
5th
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average victim life after diagnosis
8 years
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how many percentage of americans with AD is women?
2/3
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greatest funds in research
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broca's area and motor
frontal lobe
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association area with emotion and equilibrium
temporal
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sensation from muscle and skin and object recognition
parietal
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wernicke's area (written and spoken language comprehension)
meeting of parietal and temporal lobes
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