Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, the first Black psychiatrist in the United States, contributed to early research on Alzheimer’s disease. - Boston University Photography Alzheimer’s disease is increasingly ...

In the fall of 1901, a confused, forgetful, disoriented and paranoid 51-year-old woman named Auguste D. was admitted to Germany’s Frankfurt Hospital. She was the first documented case of a ...

The two dominant proteins that determine how much blood flows through the body's arteries have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease, in a new study in the Jan. 16 issue of the Proceedings of the ...

One of the diseases that older people fear the most is Alzheimer’s, first described in 1906 by the German physician Alois Alzheimer. An autopsy on his first dementia patient showed amyloid plaques and ...

Alzheimer’s association Nearly 120 years ago, the first case of Alzheimer’s disease was diagnosed by Dr. Alois Alzheimer. Today, as nearly 21,000 Montanans among more than 7.4 million people in the U.

In 1907, Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer presented a rare case of dementia in a 51-year-old woman. This "presenile dementia" (younger than 60) was thought distinct enough from "senile dementia" (older than ...

One hundred years ago, a German psychiatrist named Alois Alzheimer presented a paper that described puzzling symptoms in one of his patients. The brain disease he described is now known by his name.

Why is there no cure for Alzheimer’s—or why aren’t there medications that can at least substantially slow or meaningfully ameliorate the disease? It afflicts more than 6 million Americans, with that ...

The two dominant proteins that determine how much blood flows through the body's arteries have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease. They offer new, surprising targets against Alzheimer's disease ...