What is Alzheimer’s disease? – Ivan Seah Yu Jun

Explore one of the most common reason for mental deterioration, Alzheimer’s condition, just how it affects the brain and researchers’ look for a treatment.

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Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most common reason for mental deterioration, affecting over 40 million people worldwide. And though it was found over a century back, scientists are still grappling for a remedy. Ivan Seah Yu Jun explains just how Alzheimer’s influences the brain, dropping light on the different phases of this complicated, harmful condition.

Lesson by Ivan Seah Yu Jun, animation by STK Films.

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