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Journal of Undergraduate Research

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2017

Alzheimer's disease

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Assessing Diagnostic Capacity Of Event-Related Potentials In Mild Alzheimer’S Disease, Jack Silcox, Bruce Brown Jun 2017

Assessing Diagnostic Capacity Of Event-Related Potentials In Mild Alzheimer’S Disease, Jack Silcox, Bruce Brown

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that always results in death. Unfortunately, the death that eventually comes is preceded by vicious symptoms. A patient with the disease slowly begins to lose memory and other cognitive abilities, robbing a person of their mind and life.

Alzheimer’s disease is becoming a major public health problem (Blennow, de Leon, & Zetterberg, 2006). In 2006, it was estimated that about one quarter of people of above the age of 85 years suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (Ferri, Prince, Brayne, Brodaty, Fratiglioni, Ganguli,… Scazufca). Because of how destructive this disease is to individuals, families and …