Alzheimer’s Disease
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Chronic Mental Diseases
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
- Conjunctival Amyloidosis
- Corticobasal Degeneration
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease
- Dementia With Lewy Bodies
- Dentatombral-Pallidoluysian Atrophy
- Desmin-Related Cardiomyopathy
- Dialysis-Related Amyloidosis
- Familial Alzheimer’s Disease
- Familial Amyloidotic Cardiomyopathy
- Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy
- Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Familial British Dementia
- Familial Danish Dementia
- Familial Fatal Insomnia
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Familial Oculoleptomeningel Amyloidosis
- Familial Parkinson’s Disease
- Finnish Hereditary Systemic Amyloidosis
- Frontotemporal Dementia
- Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker Syndrome
- HIV Infection
- Hereditary Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
- Hereditary Non-Neuropathic Systemic Amyloidosis
- Hereditary Renal Amyloidosis
- Huntington’s Disease
- Inclusion Body Myositis
- Insulin-Related Amyloidosis
- Isolated Atrial Amyloidosis
- Medullary Carcinoma Of The Thyroid
- Multiple Systems Atrophy
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Pick’s Disease
- Preeclampsia
- Primary Amyloidosis
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Prostatic Amyloidosis
- Pure Autonomic Failure
- Senile Systemic Amyloidosis
- Spinal And Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
- Spinal Cord Injury And Traumatic Brain Injury
- Spinocerebellar Ataxia Types 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, And 17
- Systemic (Reactive) Aa Amyloidosis
- Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, affecting ~6.7 million Americans and > 55 million people worldwide. These numbers are predicted to double every 20 years. Nearly two thirds are women. Cost of care is estimated at $345 billion in the US and $1.3 trillion globally. For more statistics, see the Facts and Figures page of the Alzheimer’s Association and Dementia Statistics.
Two proteins aggregate and kill brain cells in AD—amyloid β-protein (Aβ) and tau, which form the pathological hallmarks of the disease—amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, respectively.
See also Familial Alzheimer’s Disease