Across
2. when you are diagnosed you should plan for the ____
5. _(#)_ leading cause of death
6. alzheimer’s is a ______
8. memory loss, confusion about recent events, difficulty with words are ____
10. where your short term memory is
12. Aricept, Exelon, Razadyne and Namenda are these
13. national alzheimer’s awareness month
14. suspition, withdrawal, disinterest; ___ changes associated with alzheimer’s
17. well established risk factor for alzheimer’s
20. cerebral cortex controls this
21. you can not cure it, you just manage the ____
22. brain’s nerve cells
Down
1. sticky beta amyid praques are made of this
3. do this mental activity to slow the loss of brain cells
4. researchers are studying numbers 1,14, and 21 of these
7. 50% of people over 85 have this
9. tau protein makes insoluble twisted fibers that look like _______
11. loss of intellectual function
15. country where Dr. Alzheimer discovered the plaques and tangles in 1906
16. eat a healthy _____
18. what everyone should do for 30 minutes each day
19. there is no _____ for this disease
