INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION OF GENERAL MEDICINE TO MEDICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a progressive disease involving the loss of several cognitive functions. In the etiology there are mutation deficits in some genes and resultant mutational changes in amyloid precursor protein, presenilin 1 and 2, apolipoprotein E and low-density- lipoprotein-bound receptor protein (1).