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Auguste's father died when she was young. Even though Auguste's family was impoverished, she was well-educated. She attended school in Cassell, and it is speculated that she may have been a student of Dr. Alois Alzheimer's grandfather, Johann. He was a schoolmaster in Cassell during the time Auguste attended school.
Alois Alzheimer (/ ˈ æ l t s h aɪ m ər / ALTS-hy-mər, US also / ˈ ɑː l t s-, ˈ ɔː l t s-/ AHLTS-, AWLTS-, [1] [2] German: [ˈaːlɔɪs ˈʔaltshaɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin.
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...
Brain scan from one of Dr. Richard Isaacson’s Alzheimer’s preventative neurology patients, a 55-year-old man with the highest known genetic risk for Alzheimer's. Through early intervention, he ...
Some participants in one trial were featured in CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s documentary “The Last Alzheimer’s Patient,” streaming today on MAX as part of “The ...
The disease is named after German psychiatrist and pathologist Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. [29] Alzheimer's financial burden on society is large, with an estimated global annual cost of US$1 trillion. [14] It is ranked as the seventh leading cause of death worldwide. [30]
Naomi Watts has opened up about her experiences of memory loss after learning she is at a higher risk of the syndrome. The actor, 54, got candid about her health in her new book Dare I Say It ...
He began working at Columbia University in 1968, and in 1976 he was named the first H. Houston Merritt chair in research neurology. [3] In 1977, [3] however, he became professor, chair and chief of service of neurology at the University of Michigan Medical School. [1] [6] The hospital's neurology service named after him, as well as a lecture ...