Title |
Alzheimer's 100th anniversary of death and his contribution to a better understanding of Senile dementia
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Published in |
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, February 2015
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DOI | 10.1590/0004-282x20140207 |
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Authors |
Eliasz Engelhardt, Marleide da Mota Gomes |
Abstract |
Initially the trajectory of the historical forerunners and conceptions of senile dementia are briefly presented, being highlighted the name of Alois Alzheimer who provided clinical and neuropathological indicators to differentiate a group of patients with Senile dementia. Alzheimer's examination of Auguste D's case, studied by him with Bielschowsky's silver impregnation technique, permitted to identify a pathological marker, the intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles, characterizing a new disease later named after him by Kraepelin - Alzheimer's disease. Over the time this disorder became one of the most important degenerative dementing disease, reaching nowadays a status that may be considered as epidemic. |
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