Even in a world of modern medicine and major medical advances the likes of which the world has never seen before, certain diseases continue to torment the human race and confound even some of the most advanced scientists. brightest today. Unfortunately, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of them, affecting between 2.4 and 4.5 million people in the United States. Alzheimer's disease is usually diagnosed in people over the age of 65, but in rarer cases people as young as 16 are affected. Since it is a degenerative disease, patients develop it with few symptoms in the early stages, but it then gradually becomes more predominant in the way the patient lives their life, progressing into dementia ⨥. Alzheimer's disease was discovered by a neurologist named Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1906. Alzheimer was born in Markbreit, Germany, attended various universities, including Berlin, Tübingen, and Würzburg, and received his medical degree in 1887 Alzheimer became a research assistant to Emil Kraepelin at the Munich Medical School, where he established a new brain research laboratory. Later, after becoming a professor of psychiatry and neuro...