Alzheimer’s is an incurable type of dementia that involves a disorder of the associative and limbic areas of the brain. The majority of patients who suffer from this deadly disease will have fewer than 15 years of life after their diagnosis, depending on how far advanced their case is when they are diagnosed.
It is not known precisely what causes Alzheimer’s, but researchers believe that it is the result of neurodegenerative activity in the brain. This is a major factor in Alzheimer’s development, and it is believed that free radicals form in the brain and begin killing cells