She was admitted to the Frankfurt Psychiatric Hospital under the care of Dr. Alois Alzheimer. Alzheimer asked her many questions, to which she would sometimes quietly reply "Ich habe mich verloren." ...

OCTOBER 2, 2020 — It’s been more than 112 years since two scientists, Oskar Fischer and Alois Alzheimer, published the first descriptions of the condition we now call Alzheimer’s disease. Despite ...

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 ...

Almost 120 years after Dr. Alois Alzheimer first identified, via autopsy, the characteristic ways Alzheimer’s changes the brain, many aspects of the disease remain a mystery. But Dr. Hamid ...

Named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, who first observed abnormal clumps (amyloid plaques) and tangled fibers (tau tangles) in the brain of a woman with memory loss and erratic behavior, these features ...

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness and National Family Caregivers Month. First diagnosed by Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1906, Alzheimer’s disease remains one of the greatest challenges ...