Part one of term paper
affects nerve cells or the brain and leads to memory impairment and loss of mental faculties. is characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental power. A person can have memory loss, a personality change, and become listless or confused once they have AD (). These are symptoms of a dis ...

Part two of term paper
... causes dementia. At first a person's memory may become impaired and they become forgetful, depression may set in, personality may change, and simple tasks become difficult. The dementia interferes with normal functions. Memory failure was once thought to be a normal process of aging, but studies of the elderly indicate that it is the result of some disease process. In fact the symptoms of were dismissed as normal consequences of human aging. After that, in the 1980's, AD came to be recogn ...