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==Discovery==
==Discovery==
German psychiatrist [[Alois Alzheimer]] first described this incurable, [[degenerative disease|degenerative]], and [[Terminal illness|terminal disease]] in 1906.
[[Image:Auguste D aus Marktbreit.jpg|220px|thumb|[[Auguste D]], first described patient with AD]]
Although the concept of [[dementia]] goes as far back as the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and [[physician]]s,<ref name="pmid9661992">{{cite journal
|author=Berchtold NC, Cotman CW
|title=Evolution in the conceptualization of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: Greco-Roman period to the 1960s
|journal=Neurobiology of Aging
|volume=19
|issue=3
|pages=173–189
|year=1998
|pmid=9661992
|doi=10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00052-9
}}</ref> it was in 1901 when Alöis Alzheimer, a German [[psychiatry|psychiatrist]], identified the first case of what became known as Alzheimer's disease in a fifty-year-old woman he called [[Auguste D]]. Alöis Alzheimer followed her until she died in 1906, when he first reported the case publicly.<ref>Auguste D.:
* {{
cite journal
| author=Alzheimer Alöis
| title=Uber eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde
| journal=
| volume=64
| issue=1–2
| pages=146–148
| year=1907
| language={{de icon}}
}}
*{{cite journal
|author=Alöis Alzheimer
|origdate=1907
|title=About a peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex. (Translated by L. Jarvik and H. Greenson)
|journal=Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders
|volume=1
|issue=1
|pages=3–8
|year=1987
|pmid=3331112
|doi=
|issn=
}}
*{{cite book
|author=Maurer Ulrike, Maurer Konrad
|title=Alzheimer: the life of a physician and the career of a disease
|publisher=Columbia University Press
|location=New York
|year=2003
|pages=270
|isbn=0-231-11896-1
|oclc=
|doi=
}}
*{{cite book
|author=Hochberg Fred H., Rottenberg David
|title=Neurological classics in modern translation
|publisher=Hafner Press
|location=New York
|year=1977
|pages=<!-- needed -->
|isbn=0-02-851180-8
|oclc=
|doi=
}}</ref> In the following five years, eleven similar cases were reported in the [[medical literature]], some of them already using the term Alzheimer's disease.<ref name="pmid9661992">{{cite journal
|author=Berchtold NC, Cotman CW
|title=Evolution in the conceptualization of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: Greco-Roman period to the 1960s
|journal=Neurobiology of Aging
|volume=19
|issue=3
|pages=173–189
|year=1998
|pmid=9661992
|doi=10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00052-9
}}</ref> The official consideration of the disease as a distinctive entity is attributed to [[Emil Kraepelin]], who included ''Alzheimer’s disease'' or ''presenile'' [[dementia]] as a subtype of ''senile dementia'' in the eighth edition of his ''Textbook of Psychiatry'', published in 1910.<ref name="isbn1-4325-0833-4">{{cite book
|author=Kraepelin Emil, Diefendorf A. Ross (translated by)
|title=Clinical Psychiatry: A Textbook For Students And Physicians (Reprint)
|publisher=Kessinger Publishing
|location=
|date=2007-01-17
|pages=568
|isbn=1-4325-0833-4
|oclc=
|doi=
}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
{{Reflist|2}}

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Auguste D, first described patient with AD

Although the concept of dementia goes as far back as the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and physicians,[1] it was 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 he called Auguste D. Alöis Alzheimer followed her until she died in 1906, when he first reported the case publicly.[2] In the following five years, eleven similar cases were reported in the medical literature, some of them already using the term Alzheimer's disease.[1] The official consideration of the disease as a distinctive entity is attributed to Emil Kraepelin, who included Alzheimer’s disease or presenile dementia as a subtype of senile dementia in the eighth edition of his Textbook of Psychiatry, published in 1910.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Berchtold NC, Cotman CW (1998). "Evolution in the conceptualization of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: Greco-Roman period to the 1960s". Neurobiology of Aging. 19 (3): 173–189. doi:10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00052-9. PMID 9661992.
  2. Auguste D.:
    • Alzheimer Alöis (1907). "Uber eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde" (in Template:De icon). 64 (1–2): 146–148.
    • Alöis Alzheimer (1987). "About a peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex. (Translated by L. Jarvik and H. Greenson)". Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders. 1 (1): 3–8. PMID 3331112. Unknown parameter |origdate= ignored (|orig-year= suggested) (help)
    • Maurer Ulrike, Maurer Konrad (2003). Alzheimer: the life of a physician and the career of a disease. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 270. ISBN 0-231-11896-1.
    • Hochberg Fred H., Rottenberg David (1977). Neurological classics in modern translation. New York: Hafner Press. ISBN 0-02-851180-8.
  3. Kraepelin Emil, Diefendorf A. Ross (translated by) (2007-01-17). Clinical Psychiatry: A Textbook For Students And Physicians (Reprint). Kessinger Publishing. p. 568. ISBN 1-4325-0833-4.