Disease
Elderly Normal to Elderly Alzheimer's Disease Warp

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, degenerative disease that alters the brain, causing impaired memory, thinking, and behavior. The course of the disease usually progresses over a span of eight years from a gradual onset of symptoms that include cognitive difficulties (memory loss) and decline of intellectual abilities severe enough to interfere with work and activities of daily living.

The causes of Alzheimer's disease are currently being researched, but no definitive answers exist as yet. Genetic predisposition, abnormal protein deposits in the brain, and environmental factors are suspected to play a role in the development in the disease.

In this animation we see a warp from the average cortical surface structure of an elderly normal population and the average cortical surface structure of an elderly Alzheimer's population.