How The Brain Works: Alzheimers
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How the brain works
A family often finds it easier to accept the Alzheimer's patient's cognitive problems than his or her behavior problems, which may make the patient seem deliberately uncooperative, spiteful, or just plain mean. But both kinds of problems are consequences of the disease. A close look at the brain reveals how memory, intellectual abilities, emotions, and behavior are connected and how they become disconnected in Alzheimer's disease.
| Last updated: | January 23, 2007 |
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