Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia among older people. AD is characterized as neurodegenerative disease showing impairment of cognitive function, death of neuronal cells, numerous numbers of senile plaques and tangle of neurofilaments. The paper contains the literary review concerning the most important neurobiological mechanisms of the AD development. The modern strategy of treatment such as acetylcholine esterase inhibitors, neuroprotectors, neurotrophic factors, inhibitors of beta- and gamma-secretase, beta-amyloid aggregation inhibitors, beta-amyloid degradation stimulators, beta-amyloid vaccination, inhibitors of tau protein phosphorylation, estrogens, nonsteroid anti-inflamatory drugs is discussed.

• Левада Олег Анатолійович (медичні науки)

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