Concept information
Preferred term
Alzheimer Disease
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Alzheimer Dementia
- Alzheimer Dementias
- Alzheimer Diseases
- Alzheimer Sclerosis
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Alzheimer's Diseases
- Alzheimers Diseases
- Alzheimer Syndrome
- Alzheimer Type Dementia
- Alzheimer Type Dementia (ATD)
- Alzheimer-Type Dementia (ATD)
- Alzheimer Type Senile Dementia
- Dementia, Alzheimer
- Dementia, Alzheimer Type
- Dementia, Alzheimer-Type (ATD)
- Dementia, Primary Senile Degenerative
- Dementia, Senile
- Primary Senile Degenerative Dementia
- Sclerosis, Alzheimer
- Senile Dementia
- Senile Dementia, Alzheimer Type
Scope note
- 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)
History note
- 1998(1963); for DEMENTIA, PRESENILE and DEMENTIA, PRIMARY DEGENERATIVE SENILE use DEMENTIA 1981-1999; for DEMENTIA SENILE use DEMENTIA 1966-1999
In other languages
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Finnish
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Altzheimer
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Altzheimerin sairaus
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Altzheimerin tauti
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Alzheimer
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Alzheimerin dementia
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Alzheimerin sairaus
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Alzheimers sjukdom
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morbus Altzheimer
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morbus Alzheimer
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morbus Alzheimer non specificatus
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määrittämätön Alzheimerin tauti
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ospecificerad Alzheimers sjukdom
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000544
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