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Why can't people with Alzheimer's disease remember new information?

Is it because their brain becomes so small it can not retain new information, thus proving the brain has a limit to memory? Or is it that it can not create new synapses because of decay? I am only 15, please it is for a mental health assignment, I chose Alzheimer's disease because my grandfather has it.

Ok Alzheimers is a terminal, degenerative illness.

Alzheimer's disease is characterised by loss of neurons and synapses in the cerebral cortex and certain subcortical regions. Means that it basically burns neurons and bridges between them. It is caused by degeneration of the teporal and perital lobe.

In most simplest terms the brain is slowly dying and usuall the memory section of the brain is killed off first, as Alzheimes starts near here. The brain is simply breaking down and getting smaller and smaller as more neurons and bridges are breaking away and what you are left with is death unfortunately.

It seems like they don't know why yet, but from this page its because plaques and tangles form in the brain that limit memory:

http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/Public...

Sorry to hear about your grandfather!

Their are actually benefits in having Alzheimer's disease, you meet new people everyday.

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