What Is Early Onset Alzheimer's?

 Early Onset Alzheimer's was discovered in 1906 by a German physician named Alois Alzheimer and was later named by Emil Kraepelin in 1910. Early Onset Alzheimer's is Alzheimer's that affects people younger than age 65. It is caused by abnormal protein deposits in the brain, genes failing to complete a genetic code, or enviormental risk factors such as pollution, radiation, etc. Plaques accumulate between dying cells in the brain, from the build-up of a protein called beta-amyloid, and tangles accumulate inside of nerve cells from  deposits of the protein tau.