What is Alzheimer’s disease? – Ivan Seah Yu Jun

Check out one of the most typical source of mental deterioration, Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects the mind as well as researchers’ search for a remedy.

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Alzheimer’s illness is one of the most typical cause of mental deterioration, impacting over 40 million people worldwide. And though it was found over a century ago, scientists are still grappling for a remedy. Ivan Seah Yu Jun describes just how Alzheimer’s affects the brain, clarifying the different stages of this complicated, damaging illness.

Lesson by Ivan Seah Yu Jun, computer animation by STK Films.

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