1. Alois Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin.
21 Facts About Alois Alzheimer
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Alois Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin later identified as Alzheimer's disease.
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Alois Alzheimer's father served in the office of notary public in the family's hometown.
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The Alzheimers moved to Aschaffenburg when Alois was still young in order to give their children an opportunity to attend the Royal Humanistic Gymnasium.
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In 1887, Alois Alzheimer graduated from Wurzburg as Doctor of Medicine.
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In 1888, Alois Alzheimer spent five months assisting mentally ill women before he took an office in the city mental asylum in Frankfurt, the Stadtische Anstalt fur Irre und Epileptische.
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Alois Alzheimer was the co-founder and co-publisher of the journal Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie, though he never wrote a book that he could call his own.
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When Kraepelin moved to Munich to work at the Royal Psychiatric Hospital in 1903, he invited Alois Alzheimer to join him.
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In 1904, Alois Alzheimer completed his habilitation at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he was appointed as a professor in 1908.
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Alois Alzheimer's health deteriorated shortly after his arrival so that he was hospitalized.
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Alois Alzheimer is known for having a variety of medical interests including vascular diseases of the brain, early dementia, brain tumors, forensic psychiatry and epilepsy.
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In 1901, Alois Alzheimer observed a patient at the Frankfurt asylum named Auguste Deter.
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Herr Deter made several requests to have his wife moved to a less expensive facility, but Alois Alzheimer intervened in these requests.
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On 8 April 1906, Auguste Deter died, and Alois Alzheimer had her medical records and brain brought to Munich where he was working in Kraepelin's laboratory.
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On 3November 1906, Alois Alzheimer discussed his findings on the brain pathology and symptoms of presenile dementia publicly, at the Tubingen meeting of the Southwest German Psychiatrists.
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The lecturer that followed Alois Alzheimer was to speak on the topic of "compulsive masturbation", which the audience of 88 individuals was so eagerly awaiting that they sent Alois Alzheimer away without any questions or comments on his discovery of the pathology of a peculiar case of early-onset dementia.
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Alois Alzheimer eventually conceived "his" disease as mainly characterized clinically by a severe dementia with instrumental symptoms, and pathologically by extended neurofibrillary tangles.
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Alois Alzheimer debated fiercely with Oskar Fischer, a German-speaking pathologist from Prague, who instead emphasized on the importance of neuritic plaques and of presbyophrenia as the phenotype.
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In 1894, Alois Alzheimer married Cecilie Simonette Nathalie Geisenheimer, with whom he had three children.
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Alois Alzheimer died of heart failure on 19 December 1915 at age 51, in Breslau, Silesia.
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Alois Alzheimer's body was buried four days later, next to Cecilie's at the Frankfurt Main Cemetery.