Inside the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Alzheimer’s Disease [HQ]

This 4-minute captioned video shows the intricate mechanisms involved in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain. Permission to use ADEAR materials is not required. When you use our materials in print, on the Web, or in a video or audio format, we simply request that you credit the “Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral Center, a service of the National Institute on Aging.“ The human brain is a remarkable organ. Complex chemical and electrical processes take place within our brains that let us speak, move, see, remember, feel emotions and make decisions. Inside a normal healthy brain, billions of cells called neurons constantly communicate with one receive messages from each other as electrical charges travel down the axon to the end of the neuron. The electrical charges release chemical messengers called neurotransmitters. The transmitters move across microscopic gaps, or synapses, between neurons. They bind to recept