Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia
Genetics and Molecular Biology of Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
Daniela Galimberti, Chiara Fenoglio, Elio Scarpini
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, with a prevalence of 5% after 65 years of age. The disease was originally described by Alois Alzheimer and Gaetano Perusini in 1906, and it is clinically characterised by progressive cognitive impairment including impaired judgement, decision-making and orientation, often accompanied, in later […]