Definitions
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- noun a progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia except that it usually starts in the 40s or 50s; first symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech and finally complete helplessness
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Examples
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Sorry everyone, my alzheimers is is causing me to make these irrational statements. micala
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"wife just called -- tests came back and it's cancer. i could handle that maybe, but mom's run away from the nursing home again and grandpa's alzheimers is getting worse. i never thought it would be so hard to turn 60."
Pop Quiz: Choose Your Own Adventure! Slimbolala 2006
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Biomarkers are currently being used in developing treatments for many forms of cancer, as well as for many diseases such as alzheimers, cardiovascular and hepatitis-C.
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010
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The technology is also usable for other illnesses such as alzheimers and diabetes.
WN.com - Articles related to Healthy Diet Could Slow Or Reverse Early Effects Of Alzheimer's Disease 2010
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The technology is also usable for other illnesses such as alzheimers and diabetes.
WN.com - Articles related to Healthy Diet Could Slow Or Reverse Early Effects Of Alzheimer's Disease 2010
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Biomarkers are currently being used in developing treatments for many forms of cancer, as well as for many diseases such as alzheimers, cardiovascular and hepatitis-C.
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010
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They are just "hoping" and waiting for a collective alzheimers to emerge among the electorate. rcov092
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I think I'm doing pretty good for someone who has had two strokes and beginning alzheimers.
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Yes there are therapeutic benefits and it is used to help with treatment of some diseases, there have even been studies that show it prevents the onset of alzheimers, but there are equally studies that show other long term effects on the brain from continued use, it is too soon for all the long term effects to be known.
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Natioanalising supermarkets, a citizens income (with no job centres or compulsion to work), no stem cell research (explain that to peple whose family have alzheimers).
I am a Lib Dem (or so this website says) Norfolk Blogger 2009
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