She was admitted to the Frankfurt Psychiatric Hospital under the care of Dr. Alois Alzheimer. Alzheimer asked her many questions, to which she would sometimes quietly reply "Ich habe mich verloren." ...

In 1903, German researcher and pathologist Dr. Alois Alzheimer — whom the disease was eventually named after — was searching for foreign researchers who could assist him in brain research at ...

In 1901, a German psychiatrist named Alois Alzheimer met a woman at a Frankfurt psychiatric hospital who fascinated him. She was middle-aged, like Long’s mother, but had severe memory loss ...

Dr. Alois Alzheimer (front left) and Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller (front, second from left) sit with a group of psychiatrists in the Royal Psychiatric Clinic lab.

Lecanemab, marketed as Leqembi, is the first drug targeting the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease to be approved by the European Medicines Agency. Despite its side effects and limited efficacy ...

OCTOBER 2, 2020 — It’s been more than 112 years since two scientists, Oskar Fischer and Alois Alzheimer, published the first descriptions of the condition we now call Alzheimer’s disease. Despite ...

Named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, who first observed abnormal clumps (amyloid plaques) and tangled fibers (tau tangles) in the brain of a woman with memory loss and erratic behavior, these features ...

They were one of the first things that Alois Alzheimer noted when he described the disease back in 1906. And yes, they are so visible that you could see them with 1906 technology.

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness and National Family Caregivers Month. First diagnosed by Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1906, Alzheimer’s disease remains one of the greatest challenges ...

The skepticism surrounding the infection-dementia connection dates back to Alois Alzheimer, who first described the disease over a century ago. Both Alzheimer and his contemporary, Oskar Fischer ...

Almost 120 years after Dr. Alois Alzheimer first identified, via autopsy, the characteristic ways Alzheimer’s changes the brain, many aspects of the disease remain a mystery. But Dr. Hamid ...