Description
The Second Edition Understanding Alzheimer's Disease defines Alzheimer's disease and discusses the aging brain, dementia, and diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. It lists risk factors, describes the three main stages of Alzheimer's disease, and provides key management techniques for both patients and their families and caregivers. The chart illustrates and discusses the areas of the brain affected by the disease. Explains and shows a close up view of amyloid plaques (also called senile plaques)
Describes and illustrates the following:
physical changes to the cerebral cortex
abnormal cellular structures involved (granulovacuolar degeneration and neurofibrillary tangles)
normal neuron and how Alzheimer's disease destroys the way neurons "talk" to each other.
Dimensions for this chart are 20" x 26" (51cm x 66cm)