Dr Anjana S

I forget things sometimes, don’t everyone? Yes – we all misplace our keys or walk into a room and forget why. But when this memory loss interferes with our daily life, it may be more than just normal ageing. It could be Alzheimer’s disease- a progressive neurological disorder that affects millions worldwide. When we say about a brief history of Alzheimer’s disease, the first reported case was in 1906 by Alois Alzheimer, where he described the symptomology as well as distinctive plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain histology of a 50-year-old female patient named Auguste Deter. She experienced memory…