How does Alzheimer's disease effect intelligence?

Intelligence is made up of many different functions - memory, reasoning, logic, etc. - that are controlled by different parts of the brain. read more

Alzheimer’s disease can result in a decline in cognitive abilities. It also includes frequent memory lapses, a lowered ability to show and control emotion, lowered empathy etc. All of this are different aspects of human intelligence and almost each one is affected. read more

Learn what Alzheimer’s disease does to the brain, including plaque formation, cell death, lost connections, and brain inflammation and shrinkage. Learn what Alzheimer’s disease does to the brain, including plaque formation, cell death, lost connections, and brain inflammation and shrinkage. read more

To do this, we applied a multilayer clustering algorithm to analyse dozens of data points from a US study called the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, including cognition tests, brain scans and spinal fluid biomarkers. The samples were taken from 562 people with mild cognitive impairment followed for up to five years. read more