Before talking about Alzheimer’s disease, we must understand
the concept of dementia, which is conceptualized as the progressive
loss of cognitive functions due to brain damage or disorders.
Characteristically, this cognitive alteration causes inability
to perform the activities of daily life mainly seen in memory,
calculation, way of relating and living together, as well as in decision
making. Many times, dementia is caused by other types of ailments,
such as brain tumors, hydrocephalus, multiple cerebral infarcts,
metabolic diseases such as hypothyroidism, chronic infections; or
it can also be simulated by anxiety and chronic depression. Being
the most frequent cause of dementia (although we already stressed
that it is not the only one), Alzheimer’s disease was discovered and
reported in 1907 by the German Alois Alzheimer, and it is when
until a few years ago it was of unusual characteristics due to the
poor expectation of life, but by increasing this, a series of chronic
degenerative diseases are derived at the same time, with an increase
in their frequency of appearance, among them the condition that
welcomes us today.
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