Even in a world of modern medicine and great medical advances like the world has never seen before, some diseases continue to plague the human race and confound even some of today's most brilliant scientists. Unfortunately, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of them, affecting between 2.4 and 4.5 million people in America. Alzheimer's is usually diagnosed in people over the age of 65, but in rarer cases, people as young as 16 also suffer from it. Since it is a degenerative disease, patients develop it with few symptoms at an early stage, but then it gradually becomes more predominant in the way the patient lives his life, turning into dementia ⨥. Alzheimer's disease was discovered by a neurologist named Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1906. Alzheimer was born in Markbreit, Germany, attended several universities including Berlin, Tübingen, and Würzburg, and earned his medical degree in 1887. Alzheimer became an assistant Emil Kraepelin's research faculty at the medical faculty of Munich, where he created a new laboratory for brain research. Later, after becoming a professor of psychiatry and neuro...