Alzheimer's disease/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Neuroscience [r]: The study of nervous systems and their components. ^[e]
• Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
• Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. ^[e]
• Neurology [r]: The medical specialty concerned with evaluating the nervous system and the other system that it affects, and the treatment of nervous system disorders. ^[e]
• Neuropathology [r]: The study of disease in the nervous system. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Familial Alzheimer's disease [r]: Inherited form of Alzheimer's caused by a defect on a particular chromosome, usually diagnosed before the age of 65. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Dementia [r]: Progressive decline in two or more cognitive domains that is severe enough to interfere with the performance of everyday activities. ^[e]
• Aging (biology) [r]: The gradual irreversible changes in structure and function of an organism that occur as a result of the passage of time. ^[e]
• Schizophrenia [r]: A mental disorder characterized by impaired perception of the individual's environment. ^[e]
• Amnesia [r]: Pathologic partial or complete loss of the ability to recall past experiences (retrograde amnesia) or to form new memories (anterograde amnesia). ^[e]
• Memory (biology) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bipolar disorder [r]: A mental illness of the subtype mood disorders which is also known as manic-depressive illness, characterised by the occurrence of manic or hypomanic states alternating with bouts of depression. ^[e]
• Cognitive impairment [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dementia [r]: Progressive decline in two or more cognitive domains that is severe enough to interfere with the performance of everyday activities. ^[e]
• Depression [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Depression (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Dyslexia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mania [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mental illness [r]: A disease of the brain and mind. ^[e]
• Schizotypy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Schizotypy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Schizoaffective disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [r]: Behavior disorder originating in childhood in which the essential features are signs of developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. ^[e]

• Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. ^[e]
• Cerebral cortex [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cortical thickness [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cortical thinning [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cortical connectivity [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Brain development [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Brain evolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Brain disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Brain asymmetry [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Brain ventricle [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Synapse [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Synaptic pruning [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neurotransmitter [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dopamine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• GABA [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Lipid metabolism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Genomic imprinting [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Thalamus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Corpus callosum [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Basal ganglia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cerebellum [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Working memory [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Creativity [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Theory of mind [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Environment [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Extrapyramidal symptoms [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tardive dyskinesia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Metabolic syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description

Biographies

• Alois Alzheimer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Auguste D [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Emil Kraepelin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ronald Reagan [r]: Add brief definition or description