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I personally will say Alzheimer, Dementia and Huntington disease are one of the fast growing diseases in the aging adulthood group. Understanding that with age comes some of this major brain diseases make it more of a necessary percussion to continue to acquire more knowledge in term of the brain as well as also learning in other continue to slow sown the aging process in the brain rather than just the physical appearances of an individual.
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Reading this chapter on Disease and Disorder has really made me understand more about aging as well as understanding the fact that science doesn’t actually understand everything about the brain.
I know it sound funny but My assumption before reading this chapter was that

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