Alois Alzheimer
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Alois Alzheimer 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 ide
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Alzheimer's birthplace
First description of Alzheimer's dementia (1906)
Alzheimer just before his death (c. 1915)
Emil Kraepelin
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Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist. Fellow psychiatrist Hans Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identified him as partially responsible for laying the foundations of moder
Alois Alzheimer
…Alois Alzheimer ( AHLTS-hy-mər, German: ; 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. Alzheimer…
Kraepelin in his later years
Grave in Heidelberg (2008)