When Dr. Alois Alzheimer first identified the disease that would bear his name in 1906, he could only confirm his diagnosis ...

The phrase 'you are what you eat' was coined almost a century before Alois Alzheimer made his breakthrough in identifying brain disease, but the evidence is now clear that diet as well as age ...

Background on the German physician Alois Alzheimer who first described the debilitating, progressive illness known today as Alzheimer's disease. https://p.dw.com/p ...

Scientists have been trying to pinpoint the cause of Alzheimer’s Disease since psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer, M.D. first described it in 1906. When Dr. Alzheimer autopsied a woman with unusual ...

Had the disorder’s founder embraced medical eponyms as Alois Alzheimer or Burrill Bernard Crohn did, it might have been ...

For the next five years until she passed away, Auguste remained at the institution and was observed by a German psychiatrist, Alois Alzheimer. After her death, Alzheimer performed histological ...

When Alois Alzheimer described the case of Auguste D. to an audience of fellow psychiatrists in Tuebingen, Germany, in 1906, what set her case apart was the fact that her dementia appeared before she ...

The skepticism surrounding the infection-dementia connection dates back to Alois Alzheimer, who first described the disease over a century ago. Both Alzheimer and his contemporary, Oskar Fischer ...

In 1906, Alois Alzheimer first described an unusual set of symptoms, including behavioural disturbances and memory loss, in a relatively young patient named Auguste Deter. We now know this to be ...

To mark the 20th anniversary of Alzforum's launch in 1996, we have compiled a timeline reflecting the evolution of Alzheimer’s disease research, starting from Alois Alzheimer's public presentation of ...

Dementia is the greatest health challenge of our time, the charity Alzheimer's Research UK has warned. Dementia was first described by the German doctor Alois Alzheimer in 1906 after he performed ...