Alzheimer's Brain #1
by Alfred Pasieka
Title
Alzheimer's Brain #1
Artist
Alfred Pasieka
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Alzheimer's brain. Computer graphic of a vertical (coronal) slice through the brain of an Alzheimer patient (at left) compared with a normal brain (at right), overlaid a magnetic resonance image (MRI) of a human head. The colour gradient is depicting the MRI scanning process. The Alzheimer's disease brain (red) is considerably shrunken, due to the degeneration and death of nerve cells. Apart from a decrease in brain volume, the surface of the brain is often more deeply folded. Tangled protein filaments (neurofibrillary tangles) occur within nerve cells and patients also develop brain lesions of beta- amyloid protein. Alzheimer's disease accounts for most cases of senile dementia. Symptoms include memory loss, disorientation, personality change and delusion. It ultimately leads to death.
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August 1st, 2016
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