The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. In a nutshell, Alzheimer’s is a disease where you forget things, until it comes to a point where you even forget to breathe (loss of bodily functions). Oftentimes, this disease is interchanged with the general term dementia.
“Not everything that looks like Alzheimer’s disease is Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Julie Schneider, a neuropathologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. And among all the known dementias, this newly identified kind “is the most striking mimic of Alzheimer’s,” she added.
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