NEW YORK — When Dr. Alois Alzheimer first identified the disease that would bear his name in 1906, he could only confirm his diagnosis by examining brain tissue after a patient’s death.

These were first described by Alois Alzheimer, a German doctor who gave his name to the condition in the early 20th century, when he noted amyloid plaques, tau tangles and fat droplets present in ...

Framingham's Fuller Middle School is named for a 20th century Black couple who were prominent in their respective fields ...

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 ...

referring to the original 1907 report by Alois Alzheimer that described the unusual presence of fat deposits in the brain of the first person to be diagnosed with the disease. "So much of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was first described by the German psychiatrist and pathologist Alois Alzheimer back in 1906. Alzheimer’s is a brain disease which causes dementia. Dementia is not a disease per se ...