In today's society there are many diseases. With technology and medical breakthroughs many of these diseases are treatable and somtimes curable, but in the case of alzheimer's disease there is no way to prevent this disease and there is no recovery. Many questions are asked about this disease such as: What is alzheimers disease? Who gets alzheimers disease? Are there any cures? What causes this disease? Countless research has been done to answer questions such …showed first 75 words of 383 total…

…showed last 75 words of 383 total…a protien known as tau is found in these tangles. Some of these medical experts believe that this defective version blocks the activity of normal tau protiens, which help in the assembly of a microtubule structure. The second significant finding is a high concentration of plaques (sticky patches) of a protien known as beta amyloid, which forms patches neuritic plaques. These plaques are found outside the nerve cells surrounded by the debris of dying neurons