Alois Alzheimer and coworkers at the psychiatric clinic of the University of Munich, 1904-05. Alzheimer was head of the neuroanatomic laboratory there. Here he is seated in the front row at left. In 1906, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois

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Alois Alzheimer and coworkers at the psychiatric clinic of the University of Munich, 1904-05. Alzheimer was head of the neuroanatomic laboratory there. Here he is seated in the front row at left. In 1906, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915) made a complete clinical and pathological description of presenile dementia, which came to be known as Alzheimer's disease, a progressive condition in which nerve cells in the brain degenerate.

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