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Alzheimer's disease Synonyms and keywords:AD;Alzheimer's; Alzheimer dementia; Alzheimer disease; Alzheimer sclerosis; Alzheimer's syndrome; Alzheimer-type dementia; Presenile and senile dementia; Primary senile degenerative dementia; Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type; SDAT; Alzhiemer dementia; Alzhiemer's; Alzheimer's dementia care; Alzheimer's caregiving
Overview
Historical Perspective
- In 1901 when Alöis Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist, identified the first case of what became known as Alzheimer's disease in a fifty-year-old woman whom he referred to as Auguste D.
- Alöis Alzheimer followed her until she died in 1906, at which point he reported the case publicly for the first time[1]
- In the following five years, eleven similar cases were reported in the medical literature, some of them already using the term Alzheimer's disease
Classification
Pathophysiology
Causes
Epidemiology and Demographics
Risk Factors
Natural History, Complications, and Prognosis
Diagnosis
Treatment
Related Chapters
- ↑ "About a peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex. By Alois Alzheimer, 1907 (Translated by L. Jarvik and H. Greenson)". Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 1 (1): 3–8. 1987. PMID 3331112.