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
Kraepelin in his later years
Grave in Heidelberg (2008)
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
Emil Kraepelin
…Kraepelin postulated that there is a specific brain or other biological pathology underlying each of the major psychiatric disorders. As a colleague of Alois Alzheimer, he was a co-discoverer of Alzheimer's disease, and his laboratory discovered its pathological basis. Kraepelin was confident that it would someday be…
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Alzheimer's birthplace
First description of Alzheimer's dementia (1906)
Alzheimer just before his death (c. 1915)