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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]

classification

pathophysiology

causes

risk factors

natural history, complications, and prognosis

diagnosis

treatment

related chapters

  1. "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.