100th Year Anniversary of Alzheimer's Disease-Did Dr Alzheimer Discover It?
Monday November 6, 2006
100 years ago this month Alois Alzheimer described a the condition that affected a woman called Frau Auguste D. Alois Alzheimer's, a doctor and academic, presented a key paper to the meeting of the South West German Society of Alienists on the 3rd November 1906. It was the first paper describing a clinical case of dementia.Plaques Tangles and Genes
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Dr Alzheimer's description of organic changes, atrophy, neurofibrils, and plaques linked to dementia was not a new discovery, yet it is his name that we link to dementia in most cases. Discover more yourself about the doctor and his discovery and why we now call this type of dementia Alzheimer's disease. Did Alois Alzheimer really discover Alzheimer's disease?
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I wish someone would discover a cure.
During the 1990th I had a start of Alzheimer disease. As a research chemist I found out about the build up of protein on the brain, I stopped eating all meats incl. chicken. Result: My brain is no longer foggy and is healing very slowly.
Thomas