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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.
Fischer supposedly (like Alois Alzheimer) employed new staining and autopsy results, and described "senile plaques" that are still accepted as the characteristic of the disease in addition to "neurofibrillary tangles" discovered by Alzheimer. [5] Both Fischer and Alzheimer argued that senile plaques may be formed by microorganisms. [10]
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
Alois Alzheimer: Psychiatrist who discovered Alzheimer´s disease, a degeneration of the brain in old age. Ottomar Anschütz: in 1883 he patented a camera with an internal roller blind shutter mechanism, just in front of the photographic plate. Thus the focal-plane shutter in modern recognizable form was born.
Gaetano Perusini was born in Udine on February 24, 1879 to a successful family of physicians. Perusini’s father, Andrea, was the Chief Physician of the Civil Hospital of Udine and his mother, Paolina Cumano, was the daughter of two prominent surgeons from Trieste.
Marktbreit is the birthplace of Alois Alzheimer who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimer's disease. With its suburb Gnodstadt [ de ] , Marktbreit has around 3,700 inhabitants.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens. [2] It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. [2] [15] The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. [1]
This term is now reserved for the behavioral variant of frontal temporal dementia that shows the presence of the characteristic Pick bodies and Pick cells, [3] which were first described by Alois Alzheimer in 1911. [2] [4] He was the first to name reduplicative paramnesia. He was the second to use the term dementia praecox (in 1891). [5]