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Alzheimer was the co-founder and co-publisher of the journal Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie, though he never wrote a book that he could call his own. [ 9 ] While at the Frankfurt asylum, Alzheimer also met Emil Kraepelin , one of the best-known German psychiatrists of the time.
In 1902, Alzheimer left the Irrenschloss (Castle of the Insane), as the Institution was known colloquially, to take up a position in Munich, but made frequent calls to Frankfurt inquiring about Deter's condition. On 9 April 1906, Alzheimer received a call that Auguste Deter had died. He requested that her medical records and brain be sent to him.
It was not until 1901 that German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer identified the first case of what became known as Alzheimer's disease, named after him, in a fifty-year-old woman he called Auguste D. He followed her case until she died in 1906 when he first reported publicly on it. [239]
The disease is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer. In 1906, the neuropathologist did an autopsy on the brain of a woman who died after exhibiting language problems, unpredictable behavior and memory ...
Pages in category "Deaths from Alzheimer's disease" The following 176 pages are in this category, out of 176 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The House passed the measure but it died in the Senate. ... Alzheimer’s symptoms — memory loss and the inability to perform simple tasks — tend to develop in the mid-to-late 60s and occur ...
In early Alzheimer’s stages, the hippocampus loses tissue rapidly and then atrophies as the disease progresses. A brain volume image showing the increased size of Nicholls' hippocampus. - CNN/Dr ...
Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) – credited with identifying the first published case of presenile dementia, which is now known as Alzheimer's disease [2] André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) – one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism; Leopold Auenbrugger (1722–1809) – first to use percussion as a diagnostic technique in medicine