According to the Alzheimer’s Association ( there are currently 6.5 million people with Alzheimer’s disease. An estimated 6.9 ...

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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 ...

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.

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. More than a ...

Alzheimer's disease is based on Dr. Alois Alzheimer describing illness in his patient Auguste Deter. Other diagnoses like autism were based on observations by a clinician of a series of patients.