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Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer
(
German pronunciation:
[?aːlo?is ?alts.ha?m?]
) (14 Juin 1864 ? 19 December 1915) wis a
German
psychiatrist
an
neuropathologist
an a colleague o
Emil Kraepelin
. Alzheimer is creditit wi identifyin the first published case o "presenile dementia", at Kraepelin would later identify as
Alzheimer's disease
.
[1]
- ↑
Berrios G E (1991) Alzheimer’s Disease: A Conceptual History.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
5: 355-365