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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the Mayo Clinic, Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease that destroys brain cells, called neurons. It was first described in 1906 by a German doctor named Alois Alzheimer.