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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 ...
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]
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 ...
In 1988, at just 12 years old, Martin Pistorius' health started to decline. He soon went into a coma-like state for 12 years, but now he's awake and telling an amazing story. Pistorius says while ...
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 ...
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 ...