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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Alzheimer Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
All the basic information you need about Alzheimer Disease can be found at this great interactive, multimedia website. Topics like: causes, inheritance, treatment, testing, and diagnosis are all covered. There is also a great section...
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Story md.com: Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Early-onset Alzheimer's disease is a form of Alzheimer disease (AD) that develops before the age of 65. This form represents less than 10 percent of all people with Alzheimer's. This article discusses risk factors, genetics, diagnosis,...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Alzheimer's Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
What's the difference between normal forgetting and Alzheimer Disease which affects some older people? Find out what happens in the brain when you have this disease and how the doctor will treat it.
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Alzheimer Society Canada: Treatment, Drug Treatments

For Students 9th - 10th
This site allows you to research drugs such as Aricept and Exelon that are available in Canada to treat people with Alzheimer's disease. This site also explains that drugs to stop the disease are not yet available.