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Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with early-onset Altzheimers. It's a sad day...
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It always happens to the good ones doesn't it ? :(

Let's hope the doctors are wrong-its's happened before.
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That's really odd. I heard that Alzheimer's gets those who don't keep their brains working. And I'd have thought Terry Pratchett's brain never stops.
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There's also some evidence of a link between heart troubles and Alzheimer's; we just don't know enough about it to be sure of the cause.
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HuManBing wrote:That's really odd. I heard that Alzheimer's gets those who don't keep their brains working. And I'd have thought Terry Pratchett's brain never stops.
It affects people who don't do mentally stimulating things regularly earlier and more quickly, but it's largely genetic--and the earlier the onset, the more important the genetic role.
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