| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| ID | DOID:10652 |
| Name | Alzheimer's disease |
| Definition | A tauopathy that is characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability and progressive loss of mental ability and results in progressive memory loss, impaired thinking, disorientation, and changes in personality and mood starting and leads in advanced cases to a profound decline in cognitive and physical functioning and is marked histologically by the degeneration of brain neurons especially in the cerebral cortex and by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and plaques containing beta-amyloid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease, http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/alzheimer%27s%20disease, http://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/alzheimers-disease-fact-sheet |
| Xrefs |
EFO:0000249 KEGG:05010 SNOMEDCT_US_2020_09_01:73768007 UMLS_CUI:C0002395 |
| Subsets |
NCIthesaurus |
| Synonyms |
Alzheimer disease [EXACT] Alzheimers dementia [EXACT] |
| Parent Relationships |
is_a tauopathy |