The nurse instructs a group of nursing students that the pathologic changes that occur in the brain of a person with dementia of Alzheimer's disease include
A) abnormal accumulation of proteins.
B) damage to the myelin sheath of neurons.
C) destruction of neurons.
D) increase in production of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

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The neuritic plaque is a cluster of degenerating nerve terminals, both dendritic and axonal, that contains amyloid protein.

The Nurse Instructs a Group of Nursing Students That the Pathologic