This History Of Alzheimer S Disease
Posted on April 12, 2009 by Phil
Alzheimer s disease is a brain disorder that affects persons thinking, memory, and intellect. It also compromises a person s social behavior and occupational functioning. This disease is the most common form of dementia and is found mainly in people over the age of sixty five. The Alzheimer s patient will get worse and worse until the end. It may even reduce their life span. The disease was first recorded by an Alois Alzheimer in early 1900 s. Alois Alzheimer was a well recognized German physician who specialized in neuropathology and histopathology. The patient was a woman names Auguste Deter, who at the age of fifty five, died leaving her physicians including Alzheimer baffled. She had suffered from language, memory and behavior problems that continued to get worse until the end. When she passed away, Alzheimer decided to study her...