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Chapter 35: 37 (page 1016)

What are the main symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease?

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The main symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are memory loss, poor judgment, and difficulty with languages.

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Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder in which a person faces problems in thinking and memorizing things.


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Symptoms of Alzheimer's' disease are:

  1. They suffer memory loss.
  2. Patients find difficulty in solving simple problems.
  3. Struggles in completing familiar tasks.
  4. Have confusion in time and location.
  5. They withdraw themselves from social activities.
  6. Have difficulty in words and languages.

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a. The soma is the cell body of a nerve cell.

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c. Axons carry the signal from the soma to the target.

d. Dendrites carry the signal to the soma.

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