Auguste Deter, Alois Alzheimer‘s patient in November 1901, first described patient with Alzheimer’s Disease. Public domain photo via Wikimedia Commons. Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History!
(Medical Xpress)—More than a hundred years after Alois Alzheimer identified Alzheimer's disease in a patient an analysis of that original patient's brain has revealed the genetic origin of their ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alzheimer's disease is named for Alois Alheimer (left), but his patient, Auguste Deter (right), should not be overlooked.
The most succinct first-person account of living with Alzheimer’s disease remains the one provided by the first person diagnosed with it. Auguste Deter was 51 years old and otherwise healthy when she ...
In 1901, the Frankfurt Asylum had among its many anonymous patients a woman who left her name to posterity. Her name was Auguste Deter, and she was in her early 50s. She was unaware of the historical ...
On a mother's connections with Auguste Deter, the first patient diagnosed by Dr Alzheimer... For Sunday Miscellany, listen to The First Alzheimer's Patient by Racehael Hegarty above. Auguste Deter was ...
Alois Alzheimer identified dementia more than a century ago. Now, researchers have validated his diagnosis, basing their analysis of the original patient's brain, revealing its genetic origin. In 1901 ...