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Alzheimer's prevalence

1/20 by 65, 1/2 by 85, most prevalent neurodegenerative disease

Impairments from AD

memory, cognition, other behaviors

Defined by atrophy, loss of neurons, loss of connections

Locations of plaques and tangles

intracellular tangles, extracellular plaques

seen in Cortex, hippocampus, amygdala

Neurofibrillary tangles

hyperphosphorylated tau

microtubule associated protein

messes up axonal transport

AB plaques

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