Alois Alzheimer
Also known as Aloys Alzheimer
German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)
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Alois Alzheimer was a German doctor who studied the brain and mental illness in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He is remembered for identifying the disease that now bears his name, Alzheimer's disease, which causes memory loss and cognitive decline in older adults.
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- Entanglement of the orbital angular momentum states of photons
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- Five-Year Follow-up of Patients Receiving Imatinib for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
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- Imatinib Compared with Interferon and Low-Dose Cytarabine for Newly Diagnosed Chronic-Phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
· 2003 · cited 2,798x
- Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing
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Alois Alzheimer (/ˈɑːltshaɪmər/ AHLTS-hy-mər, German: [ˈaːlɔɪs ˈʔaltshaɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin. He is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin later identified as Alzheimer's disease.
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1864 births1915 deathsAcademic staff of LMU MunichAcademic staff of the University of BreslauAlzheimer's diseaseBurials at Frankfurt Main CemeteryGerman neuroscientistsGerman psychiatristsGerman Roman CatholicsHumboldt University of Berlin alumniMedical doctors from the Kingdom of BavariaNeuropathologists