November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, a time to heighten awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and show support for the many people and families living with it.

More than a century ago, Alois Alzheimer noted unusual changes in brain fats, which he described as "lipoid granules," along ...

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 ...

On November 3, 1906, at the 37th Meeting of South-West German Psychiatrists in Tübingen, Germany, clinical psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, Alois Alzheimer, reported “A peculiar severe disease process ...

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.

Why is there no cure for Alzheimer’s—or why aren’t there medications that can at least substantially slow or meaningfully ameliorate the disease? It afflicts more than 6 million Americans, with that ...

What is Alzheimer’s disease? German neurologist Dr. Alois Alzheimer first identified this neurological disorder in 1906 while studying the pathology of a woman he had treated for an unusual mental ...

Alzheimer's disease, which was given its name in the early 20th century after after Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1906 noticed changes in the brain tissue of a woman who had died of a mental illness, is the ...