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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
People with Alzheimer's disease (1 C, 120 P) C. People with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (2 C) F. Fictional characters with dementia (18 P)
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a type of dementia, a group of diseases involving progressive neurodegeneration of the central nervous system. [ 11] It is one of the two Lewy body dementias, along with Parkinson's disease dementia. [ 12] Dementia with Lewy bodies can be classified in other ways.
Alzheimer's Disease Society. Alzheimer's Society is a United Kingdom care and research charity for people with dementia and their carers. It operates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, [ 2][ 3] while its sister charities Alzheimer Scotland [ 4] and Alzheimer Society of Ireland cover Scotland and the Republic of Ireland respectively. [ 5][ 6]
A neurodegenerative disease is caused by the progressive loss of neurons, in the process known as neurodegeneration. [ 2][ 3] Neuronal damage may also ultimately result in their death. Neurodegenerative diseases include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, multiple ...