Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include: -- Writer Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1811 -- Bookseller John Bartlett in 1820 -- Physician Alois Alzheimer in 1864 -- Photojournalist ...

Alzheimer’s disease is fatal and there is no cure. It is a slow-moving disease that starts with memory loss and ends with severe brain damage. The disease is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer.

In 1901, a German psychiatrist named Alois Alzheimer met a woman at a Frankfurt psychiatric hospital who fascinated him. She was middle-aged, like Long’s mother, but had severe memory loss ...

In 1901, a German psychiatrist named Alois Alzheimer met a woman at a Frankfurt psychiatric hospital who fascinated him. She was middle-aged, like Long’s mother, but had severe memory loss ...

In 1901, a German psychiatrist named Alois Alzheimer met a woman at a Frankfurt psychiatric hospital who fascinated him. She was middle-aged, like Long’s mother, but had severe memory loss ...

Dementia patient Auguste Deter’s contribution to the 1907 single case report study by Alois Alzheimer was immense: Deter’s life, illness and death are the story of Alzeimer’s disease.

While Alois Alzheimer certainly made important observations, Fischer’s role in defining this devastating disease was just as significant. Maybe it’s time we remembered Oskar Fischer and gave ...

In physician Alois Alzheimer’s 1907 paper 1 describing Deter’s symptoms, he wrote that she “is completely delirious, drags around her bedding, calls her husband and daughter and seems to ...

Rather than seeking a single cure — a magic bullet — for Alzheimer’s disease, a shotgun blast of different drugs with different targets may be a better approach to this very complex condition.

But until recently, those efforts have been focused primarily on the brain (where the obvious symptoms of the disease occur), leaving out a potentially crucial factor that Dr. Alois Alzheimer ...

Dr. Alois Alzheimer (front left) and Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller (front, second from left) sit with a group of psychiatrists in the Royal Psychiatric Clinic lab.