sThis extremely rare condition fascinates the scientific world. As the magazine indicated Science and lifeIn China, Alzheimer's disease It was diagnosed in a 19-year-old male. Thus he obtained the record of the youngest person known to have this disease.
The first symptoms appeared when he was 17, in this case memory problems. His problems later worsened: the teenager had difficulty reading, remembering the events of the previous day, remembering where his things were, etc. A year after his first medical appointment, he announced that he had immediate amnesia, after three minutes and after thirty minutes. Doctors rated his overall memory score as 82% lower than those at his age. As for immediate memory, it decreased by 87%.
Read also Alzheimer's disease: may begin before birthSuch a situation is a dilemma for experts. The medical team at the Memory Center that diagnosed his condition admitted that “he had changed [leur] Understand the typical age of onset Alzheimer's disease “. Published study In the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease he asserted that “the patient suffered from very early-onset Alzheimer's disease without an obvious pathological mutation.”
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