China came from a news that shocked the scientific world.
The patient first began to have difficulty focusing on classes at the age of 17. In a short period of time, symptoms such as reading difficulties, short -term memory loss and frequent losing belongings were observed.
Over time, these complaints progressed; The day before he began to have difficulty remembering what happened.
Alzheimer at a young age
In the brain scans, shrinkage was detected in the hippocampus region related to memory. Alzheimer’s biobelirts were also seen in brain spinal fluid analysis. These data supported the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s diagnosis in the patient despite his young age.
Although Alzheimer’s disease is usually seen in elderly individuals, cases under 65 years of age are defined as “early -onset Alzheimer” and make up about 10 percent of all cases. According to NTV, the disease is often associated with an hereditary genetic mutation in patients under 30 years of age and is called “Family Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD)”.
However, despite a comprehensive genetic screening in this young patient, no known gene mutation was found to be associated with the disease. His family had no history of Alzheimer’s or dementia.
In memory tests, the instant memory score of the young person was 87 percent lower than 82 percent lower compared to their peers. These results show how advanced the effects of the disease are.
“This case changes our understanding of the age of Alzheimer’s beginning,” he drew attention to the fact that Alzheimer is not only old age disease.
The study was published in February 2023 in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Scientists, young individuals in the Alzheimer’s cases, the disease is of great importance to understand the different ways of formation stressed.
