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== Cases ==
== Cases ==
* [[Bea Nelson-Stanley]] was an Alzheimer's sufferer. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon]]'')
[[Bea Nelson-Stanley]] was an Alzheimer's sufferer. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon]]'')
* [[Alan Ellis]] began to suffer from the disease. ([[TV]]: ''[[Out of Time (TV story)|Out of Time]]'')
 
* Doctors believed that [[Katie Russell]] had Alzheimer's. She in fact had a parasitic tumour. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'')
[[Alan Ellis]] began to suffer from the disease. ([[TV]]: ''[[Out of Time (TV story)|Out of Time]]'')
* [[Henrietta Goodheart]] suffered from Alzheimer's but still remained lively. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos]]'')
 
Doctors believed that [[Katie Russell]] had Alzheimer's. She in fact had a [[Parasite|parasitic]] tumour. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'')
 
[[Henrietta Goodheart]] suffered from Alzheimer's but still remained lively. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos]]'')
 
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Alzheimer's disease was a disease that would make people senile, and thus affected memory. It was quite common for victims to remember snippets from their childhoods or lives. (TV: Out of Time) One sufferer, Bea Nelson-Stanley, could rarely remember her own name, and forgot Luke Smith in the middle of a conversation with him. (TV: Eye of the Gorgon)

Ace asked the Seventh Doctor if Time Lords could suffer from Alzheimers. He told her that they got much worse diseases. (PROSE: Relative Dementias)

Cases

Bea Nelson-Stanley was an Alzheimer's sufferer. (TV: Eye of the Gorgon)

Alan Ellis began to suffer from the disease. (TV: Out of Time)

Doctors believed that Katie Russell had Alzheimer's. She in fact had a parasitic tumour. (TV: Fragments)

Henrietta Goodheart suffered from Alzheimer's but still remained lively. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos)

Alzheimer's disease