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Alois Alzheimer. Alois Alzheimer ( / ˈæltshaɪmər / ALTS-hy-mər, US also / ˈɑːlts -, ˈɔːlts -/ AHLTS-, AWLTS-, [ 1][ 2] German: [ˈaːlɔɪs ˈʔaltshaɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to People with Alzheimer's disease. This is a category for either living people with Alzheimer's disease or for deceased people with the disease, in cases where the disease was not the cause of death. If their death is directly related to Alzheimer's, add the person to Category:Deaths from Alzheimer's disease .
William Charles Utermohlen (December 5, 1933 – March 21, 2007) was an American figurative artist known for his late-period self-portraits completed after his diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease. He was diagnosed in 1995, having had progressive memory loss since 1991. After diagnosis he began a series of self-portraits influenced by both ...
Brain scan from one of Dr. Richard Isaacson’s Alzheimer’s preventative neurology patients, a 55-year-old man with the highest known genetic risk for Alzheimer's. Through early intervention, he ...
Alzheimer's disease ( AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, [ 2] and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. [ 2][ 15] The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. [ 1] As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation ...
Mayo Clinic states about 6.5 million people aged 65 and older in the U.S. have Alzheimer's disease, and of the approximately 55 million people with dementia globally, 60% to 70% are estimated to ...
People with Alzheimer's disease (1 C, 120 P) C. People with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (2 C) F. Fictional characters with dementia (18 P)
Frontotemporal dementia is an early onset disorder that mostly occurs between the ages of 45 and 65, [ 13] but can begin earlier, and in 20–25% of cases onset is later. [ 11][ 14] Men and women appear to be equally affected. [ 15] It is the most common early presenting dementia. [ 16]