June 14, 2006

Alois Alzheimer

Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who first identified what is today called Alzheimer's Disease. He observed the disease in a patient he saw in 1901, and he published his findings after a postmortem examination of her brain in 1906. What progress has been made in the treatment of this degenerative disease since its discovery?
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