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Aloysius “Alois” Alzheimer

On November 3, 1906, a key paper from a German physician at the Royal Psychiatric Clinic at Munich University, described a case of dementia and altered behavior in Frau Auguste Deter, who had died 7 months earlier. Although dementia was a commonly diagnosed symptom of the day, the paper was unique because for the first time, its symptoms and pathological features under the microscope — ‘neurofibrillary tangles’ and ‘plaques’ were described together. Read more →