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Alzheimer Disease History
Alzheimer’s disease, named after the German psychologist Alois Alzheimer’s, seems to be a disease of the twentieth century, but the brain degeneration, cognitive impairment and disturbing behavioral and psychiatric problems which characterize the disease have most likely been around for centuries. A brief lesson in Alzheimer’s disease history tells us that while […]

ALZHEIMERS DISEASE BRAIN
What is happening in the brain of an Alzheimer’s patient to cause all of the unpleasant cognitive and behavioral symptoms of the disease? Alois Alzheimer was the first to find the strange plaques and tangles characteristic of the disease in the brain of one of his patients during an autopsy. He gave […]