At 19, he is the youngest patient with Alzheimer’s disease

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The case of young people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease could become one of the most difficult questions to resolve in the future for the scientific community. – Credit:Cortical Labs/Cover Images/SIPA / SIPA / Cortical Labs/Cover Images/SIPA

His extremely rare case fascinates the scientific world. As noted by the magazine Science & Vie, in China, Alzheimer’s disease was diagnosed in a 19-year-old young man. He thus obtained the record of the youngest person known to be affected by this disease.

It was when he was 17 that the first symptoms appeared, in this case memory problems. His problems subsequently worsened: the teenager had difficulty reading, remembering the events of the day before, remembering where his things were, etc. A year after his first medical appointment, he announced that he suffered from immediate memory loss, after three minutes and after thirty minutes. Doctors rated his overall memory score as 82% lower than those of his age. For immediate memory, it fell by 87%.

READ ALSO Alzheimer’s disease: it could start before birthSuch a case is a conundrum for experts. The medical team at the memory center that diagnosed him admitted that he “changed [leur] understanding the typical age of onset of Alzheimer’s disease. A study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease confirmed that “the patient suffered from very early Alzheimer’s disease without a clear pathogenic mutation.”

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