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Mayo Clinic states about 6.5 million people aged 65 and older in the U.S. have Alzheimer's disease, and of the approximately 55 million people with dementia globally, 60% to 70% are estimated to ...
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a type of brain damage that has been found in 345 of 376 deceased former National Football League (NFL) players, according to a 2023 report by the Boston University CTE Center, which has led the effort to diagnose CTE cases. In comparison, a 2018 BU study of the general population found one CTE case in ...
Pages in category "People with dementia" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Jay Black;
Wikimedia Commons has media related to People with Alzheimer's disease. This is a category for either living people with Alzheimer's disease or for deceased people with the disease, in cases where the disease was not the cause of death. If their death is directly related to Alzheimer's, add the person to Category:Deaths from Alzheimer's disease .
Billy Connolly (born 1942), Scottish comedian and actor. [13] Neil Diamond (born 1941), American singer. [14] Frank Elstner (born 1942), German television moderator and entertainer [15] Ranulph Fiennes (born 1944), British explorer and writer. [16] Michael J. Fox (born 1961), Canadian-American actor.
Alois Alzheimer ( / ˈæltshaɪmər / ALTS-hy-mər, US also / ˈɑːlts -, ˈɔːlts -/ AHLTS-, AWLTS-, [1] [2] German: [ˈaːlɔɪs ˈʔaltshaɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile ...
The National Cancer Institute estimated 22,070 new cases of primary brain cancer and 12,920 deaths due to the illness in the United States in 2009. The age-adjusted incidence rate is 6.4 per 100,000 per year, and the death rate is 4.3 per 100,000 per year. The lifetime risk of developing brain cancer for someone born today is 0.60%.
Numerous notable people have had some form of mood disorder. This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable sources associating them with some form of bipolar disorder (formerly known as "manic depression"), including cyclothymia, based on their own public statements; this discussion is sometimes tied to the larger topic of creativity and mental illness. In the case of dead people only ...