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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.
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]
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 ...
An eponym is a phrase that is derived from or based on a person's name. [1] Medical conditions are often named after the person who first described the disorder and can also be named after the first person in whom the disorder presented or the area in which it first appeared.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting more than three million Americans per year. And while its exact cause is unknown, researchers may have just had a breakthrough.
This is a category for either living people with Alzheimer's disease or for deceased people with the disease, in cases where the disease was not the cause of death. If their death is directly related to Alzheimer's, add the person to Category:Deaths from Alzheimer's disease .
And since brains naturally lose volume as a person ages, smoking effectively speeds up the brain's aging process, possibly explaining why older smokers are at a higher risk of having Alzheimer's ...