In 1907, Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer presented a rare case of dementia in a 51-year-old woman. This "presenile dementia" (younger than 60) was thought distinct enough from "senile dementia" (older than ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Dr. Alois Alzheimer noticed peculiar changes in a freshly removed brain. The brain had belonged to a 50-year-old woman who gradually lost her memory and struggled with ...

Just recently, I found out that one of my closest friends had been diagnosed with early-stage dementia, and it hit me hard. He’s someone ...

When German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer made the post-mortem discovery of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the early 1900s, he birthed the discovery of a cruel and insidious disorder.

In 1901, the Frankfurt Asylum had among its many anonymous patients a woman who left her name to posterity. Her name was Auguste Deter, and she was in her early 50s. She was unaware of the historical ...

Mary Jean (Anderson) Johns of Cincinnati, Ohio and formerly of Evansville passed away on Sunday, March 24, 2024, at Alois Alzheimer Center from complications of dementia. Jean was born on May 16, 1937 ...