Alois Alzheimer
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Alois Alzheimer Alois Alzheimer was born in Marktbreit, Bavaria on 14 June 1864. He was a Bavarian German psychiatrist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer published a disease, which is later identified as Alzheimers disease. Biography Alzheimer attended Aschaffenburg, Tübingen, Berlin, and Würzburg universities. He received a medical degree at Würzburg University in 1886. He worked in a Central Asylum for lunatics and epileptics in Frankfurt. Later, he worked on brain paleontology. Alzheimer was the co-founder and co-publisher of the journal “Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie” , but he never wrote his own book. In 1901, Alzheimer had a patient, Auguste Deter, who had strange behavioral problems which is a loss of short term memory. This patient became his obsession. When the patient died, Alzheimer
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Alois Alzheimer
Alois Alzheimer was born in Marktbreit, Bavaria on 14 June 1864. He was a Bavarian German psychiatrist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer published a disease, which is later identified as Alzheimers �disease.
Biography
Alzheimer attended Aschaffenburg, Tübingen, Berlin, and Würzburg universities. He received a medical degree at Würzburg University in 1886. He worked in a Central Asylum for lunatics and epileptics in Frankfurt. Later, he worked on brain paleontology. Alzheimer was the co-founder and co-publisher of the journal “Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie”, but he never wrote his own book.
In 1901, Alzheimer had a patient, Auguste Deter, who had strange behavioral problems which is a loss of short term� memory. This patient became his obsession. When the patient died, Alzheimer sent his records and brain to Munich, where he worked at Kraemers lab. Since German �was the lingua franca of science at that time, Kraepelin's use of Alzheimer's disease in a textbook made the name famous. His description of the disease was being used by European physicians to diagnose patients.
He died in 191, because o liver disease.
