MooBella, a Taunton, Mass.-based company that is gearing up to market a âmake-your-ownâ ice cream machine, said that it has secured $18 million in Series A funding from W. Health LP, a venture fund managed by Inventages .
Alzheimer's and dementia basics. 1  Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other intellectual abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life. 2  Learn more: What We Know Today and Understanding Dementia.
Alzheimer's disease, named after the doctor who first described it (Alois Alzheimer), is a physical disease that affects the brain. There are more than 520,000 people in the UK with Alzheimer's disease. During the course of the disease, proteins build up in the brain to form structures called 'plaques' and 'tangles'.