Concept information
Preferred term
Alzheimer Disease
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- A degenerative disease of the BRAIN characterized by the insidious onset of DEMENTIA. Impairment of MEMORY, judgment, attention span, and problem solving skills are followed by severe APRAXIAS and a global loss of cognitive abilities. The condition primarily occurs after age 60, and is marked pathologically by severe cortical atrophy and the triad of SENILE PLAQUES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; and NEUROPIL THREADS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1049-57)
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Alzheimer Dementia
- Alzheimer Sclerosis
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Alzheimer's Diseases
- Alzheimer Syndrome
- Alzheimer-Type Dementia (ATD)
- Alzheimer Type Senile Dementia
- Dementia, Alzheimer Type
- Dementia, Primary Senile Degenerative
- Dementia, Senile
- Primary Senile Degenerative Dementia
- Senile Dementia, Alzheimer Type
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- blood (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- chemically induced (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- complications (Qualifier)
- congenital (Qualifier)
- diagnosis (Qualifier)
- diagnostic imaging (Qualifier)
- diet therapy (Qualifier)
- drug therapy (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- embryology (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- epidemiology (Qualifier)
- ethnology (Qualifier)
- etiology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiopathology (Qualifier)
- prevention & control (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- radiotherapy (Qualifier)
- rehabilitation (Qualifier)
- surgery (Qualifier)
- therapy (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Démence d'Alzheimer
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Démence dégénérative primaire de type Alzheimer
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Démence sénile primitive de type Alzheimer
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Démence sénile primitive dégénérative
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-KPNCFB5S-5
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