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What is Alzheimer Disease?
Alzheimer is a progressive and degenerative brain disease which causes problems with memory, thinking and behaviours.
Amyloidal plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are two types of proteins responsible for destroying brain nerve cells causing Alzheimer disease.
Other contributing major factors for this disease are hereditary, old age, brain injury, Down syndrome, smoking, depression, elevated homocystein level, heart problems.
The symptoms of Alzheimer disease:
Short term memory loss, inability to perform routine work, power of judgment and reasoning deteriorate, change in mood, behaviour and communication patterns, impaired language skills, emotional outbursts and in final stage the individual's ability to recognize faces and to communicate is completely lost along with the ability to control bowel and bladder control.
Astrological significator for Alzheimer disease:
Ascendant: overall strength/weakness of health, head and brain
6th house: house of sickness, lifestyle
8th house: life expectancy, incurable diseases, traumas, low and lingering diseases, cause of death