High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alzheimer's disease and prions has become a hotly researched topic, where most discoveries focus on explaining interactions within the brain. Prions, which are misfolded proteins, have long been suspected to be correlated with a number of dementia and other neurological diseases. In particular, Alzheimer's disease is hypothesized to be caused by these malforming proteins. Currently, 35 million people suffer from neurological dementia, most of these cases being Alzheimer's Disease, while prion-specific diseases (such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob) affect roughly one million people worldwide. In fact, Alzheimer's Disease may soon overtake cancer as the most prominent cause of loss of life in people older than sixty-five years old. However, the relationship between Alzheimer's Disease and prions is still unfamiliar in many aspects, in particular to what methods can be used to prevent the cause of Alzheimer's Disease. Данное издание представляет собой...