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| | Alzheimer's disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Alzheimer's disease may also include behavioral changes, such as outbursts of violence or excessive passivity in people who have no previous history of such behavior. | | | Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease, is the most common cause of dementia and characterized clinically by progressive intellectual deterioration together with declining activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes. | | | In the 1970s and early 1980s, however, the name "Alzheimer's disease" began to be used, within and outside the medical profession, equally for individuals age 65 and older with senile dementia, and was eventually adopted formally for all individuals with the common symptom pattern and disease course in the psychiatric and neurological nomenclature. |
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| | International Brain Research Organization |
| | Alzheimer A (1900) Einiges zur pathologischen Anatomie der chronischen Geistesstoerungen [On the pathological anatomy of chronic mental disturbances]. | | | Alzheimer always thought of himself as a physician and was able to combine his innovative research with the demanding clinical duties of a psychiatrist. | | | Alzheimer further recognised the neoplastic nature of the tumourous glia masse in tuberous sclerosis, and he also worked on the anatomical basis of Huntington's chorea and the choreatic movements in general. |
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| | The history of 'Alzheimer's disease' |
| | There is little point in the claim that, by dint of painstaking research, Alzheimer 'discovered' a new disease (as a botanist might have discovered a new species of orchid), or that, by dint of great scientific insight, Kraepelin realised that he was onto something important. | | | This explains, for example, why at the very end of this century, clinicians are witnessing the fragmentation of the old 'unitary concept' of Alzheimer's disease into an increasing number of genetic subtypes and clinical phenotypes. | | | It can be argued, therefore, that the concept and boundaries of Alzheimer's disease were constructed by a scientist who wanted to keep his grants going. |
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| | Alzheimer's Disease |
| | Alzheimer's disease is not reported on death certificates, so estimates of prevalence (how many people have a disease at any one time) are based on surveys in different communities, and their findings vary. | | | The cause or causes of Alzheimer's disease are unknown. | | | Alzheimer had a patient in her fifties who suffered from what seemed to be a mental illness. |
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| | Alzheimer's Issues - Alzheimer's Disease |
| | Alzheimer's disease is a group disorders involving the parts of the brain that control thought, memory, and language. | | | Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia (mental deterioration of memory and thought processes) among the elderly. | | | The onset and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are usually very slow and gradual, seldom occurring before the age of 65. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Alzheimer’s Disease |
| | Some of the most promising Alzheimer’s research is being conducted in the field of genetics to learn the role a family history of the disease has in its development. | | | In the early stages, Alzheimer’s patients have relatively mild problems learning new information and remembering where they have left common objects, such as keys or a wallet. | | | Alzheimer’s patients may live many years with the disease, usually dying from other disorders that may develop, such as pneumonia. |
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| | Yamashita (1998) studied 27 probable Alzheimers Disease patients considering the standard measure (CDR) with age, education, MMSE, ADAS, and WAIS-R FIQ and analyzed with U-shape line and ITRI. | | | Simon E, Leach L, Winocur G and Moscovitch M. Intact primary memory in mild to moderate Alzheimer disease:INdices from the California Verbal Learning Test. | | | Alois was a Neurologist who discovered the disease in 1906 when he performed a neurological autopsy on a 56-yr-old woman who had died after several years of progressive mental deterioration marked by increasing confusion and memory loss. |
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| | memantine.com - The Importance of Treating Alzheimer’s Dementia |
| | The Alzheimer memorial, donated by Merz, symbolises such a co-operation in a nice way, because the company has been an important promoter of science for many years", said Professor Dr. Joachim Joachim-Felix Leonhard, Hessen State Under-secretary at the Ministry for Science and Art. | | | Alzheimer's disease, which was scientifically diagnosed for the first time by Alois Alzheimer in 1901, is the most frequent form of a dementia (loss of intellectual and cognitive brain functions). | | | The Alois Alzheimer memorial at the Frankfurt Westend Campus consists of a glass plate 2.25 meters in diameter, with a glass cross underneath. |
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| | Alzheimer's disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Alzheimer's disease may also include behavioral changes, such as outbursts of violence or excessive passivity in people who have no previous history of such behavior. | | | Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease, is the most common cause of dementia and characterized clinically by progressive intellectual deterioration together with declining activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes. | | | In the 1970s and early 1980s, however, the name "Alzheimer's disease" began to be used, within and outside the medical profession, equally for individuals age 65 and older with senile dementia, and was eventually adopted formally for all individuals with the common symptom pattern and disease course in the psychiatric and neurological nomenclature. |
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| | Alois Alzheimer - Alzheimer's Disease International |
| | In search of a post where he could combine research and clinical practice, Alzheimer became research assistant to Emil Kraepelin at the Munich medical school in 1903. | | | Today, the pathological diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is still generally based on the same investigative methods used in 1906. | | | Alois Alzheimer was born in 1864 in Markbreit in Bavaria, Southern Germany. |
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| | Dementia Facts |
| | In the file they found the original notes of Alois Alzheimer, the brain tissue taken during the autopsy, along with a well-preserved picture of Auguste D. Auguste D was 51 in 1906 when she was admitted to the Frankfurt Asylum. | | | Alzheimers disease is a frightening illness, and myths have spread out of fear and uncertainty about the causes and pathology of the disease. | | | Alzheimers is a fickle disease and scientists still have not come up with any conclusive answers as to who will get the disease and who will not. |
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| | Alzheimer's disease (www.whonamedit.com) |
| | Alzheimer's Early Stages : First Steps in Caring and Treatment | | | The most common cause of presenile dementia, Alzheimers disease is a chronic, progressive organic, mental disease due to atrophy of the frontal and occipital lobes. | | | In post-mortem examination of victims of this condition Alzheimer noted a loss of cells in all cortical layers except the motor cortex and a degeneration of neurofibrils, the filaments found in and around nerve cells. |
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| | Alois Alzheimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He observed the disease in a patient he first saw in 1901, and published his findings from his postmortem examination of her brain in 1906. | | | Laboratory for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Research - Prof. | | | Much of Alzheimer's later work on brain pathology made use of Nissl's method of silver staining of the histological sections. |
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| | Alzheimer Disease Overview |
| | (1995) Mutations of the presenilin I gene in families with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. | | | Early-onset familial Alzheimer disease is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. | | | Differences in perspective may exist among medical professionals and within families regarding the use of prenatal testing, particularly if the testing is being considered for the purpose of pregnancy termination. |
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| | Genetic Testing for Familial Alzheimer's Disease |
| | Alzheimer's disease (AD) is commonly associated with a family history; 40% of patients with AD have at least one other afflicted first-degree relative. | | | The utility of apolipoprotein E genotyping in the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease in a community-based case series. | | | When no mutation can be identified in affected family members with a clear autosomal dominant pattern of disease inheritance, the family can be referred to a research program for additional study. |
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| | Alois Alzheimer (www.whonamedit.com) |
| | During the later years of his career Alzheimer concentrated his efforts on the study of changes in glia cells in diseases of the brain. | | | Alzheimer was appointed director of the Irrenanstalt in 1895, continuing his research on a wide range of subjects, including clinical studies of manic depression and schizophrenia. | | | Alzheimer also studied brain changes in epilepsy; among other things he described a comprehensive loss of nerve cells in the hippocampus in a large part of epileptic patients, so-called ammon sclerosis. |
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| | Facts: About Genes and Alzheimer's Disease |
| | With regard to late-onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease, consensus statements by professional groups—medical, genetic, and others—agree that APOE testing is not appropriate for individuals with no symptoms of dementia. | | | In familial Alzheimer's disease, a person has inherited an abnormal variation, or mutation, in one of three genes that are known causes of the disease: PS1, PS2, and APP. | | | However, test results may significantly affect an individual's psychological well-being and family relationships. |
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| | Alzehimers Mechanism |
| | Trojanowski and his colleagues had been experimenting with a new laboratory technique, trying to learn more about the Alzheimer's tangles. | | | Coincidentally, experts say that Alois Alzheimer was also the beneficiary of a new laboratory test and staining technique when he first identified the plaques and tangles in the brain of his patient. | | | Protein from the newly-found plaques circulating in the blood or spinal fluid of Alzheimer's patients could be a means of identifying those with the disease. |
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| | Alzheimer Toronto -- Alois Alzheimer |
| | At the time of his graduation in 1887, physicians debated whether the causes of mental illnesses were medical (a brain malfunction resulting from some disease of the brain or nervous tissue) or psychological (rooted in some emotional trauma). | | | Alois Alzheimer was born in 1864 in Markbreit in southern Germany. | | | In 1915, at the age of 51, Alzheimer died of endocarditis (heart valve infection) and kidney failure. |
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| | The First Case Of Alzheimer's Disease: Original Brain Sections Found |
| | The special importance of the case of Auguste D. lies in the fact that it marks the beginning of Alzheimer disease research and that the neurofibrillary tangles, which now represent an important topic of neuroscience research in their own right, were first described in her brain. | | | Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in adult life and affects many million people worldwide. | | | Examination of these tissue sections showed a large number of neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques in the cerebral cortex of Alzheimer’s patient ("neurofibrillary tangles" represent changes in the cytoskeleton of nerve cells which are often associated with cell death, and "amyloid plaques" are extracellular deposits of a probably neurotoxic substance). |
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| | Alzheimers Disease - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Alzheimers Disease |
| | A 1996 study by US neuroscientists found that oestrogen skin patches were also beneficial in the treatment of female Alzheimer's patients, improving concentration and memory. | | | Various factors have been implicated in causing Alzheimer's disease including high levels of aluminium in drinking water and the presence in the brain of an abnormal protein, known as beta-amyloid. | | | After heart disease, cancer, and strokes it is the most common cause of death in the Western world. |
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| | Who was Alois Alzheimer? Germany Deutsche Welle 27.11.2001 |
| | In addition to his research on dementia, Alzheimer also made significant contributions to the field of histology, making important observations in epilepsy, brain tumors, Huntington's chorea, alcoholic delirium, and other areas. | | | Background on the German physician Alois Alzheimer who first described the debilitating, progressive illness known today as Alzheimer's disease. | | | The disease he described is today known as Alzheimer's disease. |
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| | Alois Alzheimer |
| | He is pertinent to my field of study because I work in an Alzheimer's research lab. | | | Since his discovery of the disease, much work has been done in the pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). | | | This page is dedicated to the wondrous work of Dr. Alois Alzheimer. |
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| | Understanding Alzheimer's |
| | You may also find it helpful to consult a counselor, spiritual advisor (such as a minister or rabbi), or psychiatrist- someone who can help you and your family cope with the emotional and psychological burden of Alzheimer's. | | | Memory loss and other problems with cognition or mood could have causes other than Alzheimer's disease. | | | The Alzheimer's Information Program was supported, in part, by a grant, number 90AM2552, from the Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. Grantees undertaking projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. |
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| | © The Centre for Genetics Education |
| | New drugs are being developed for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer disease. | | | This apparent clustering of people with dementia in some families is known to be related (at least to some extent) to the influence of their genetic make-up, but the genetic basis and inheritance pattern is different to that described for the earlier-onset familial Alzheimer disease. | | | Some families have a form of Alzheimer disease that is hereditary and is associated with one of several genes that are faulty. |
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| | Alois Alzheimer Center --> Education & Research |
| | The Alois Alzheimer Center acts as a resource and learning center for individuals, families, communities and future health care professionals by offering interaction with experienced staff and a clinical setting for students. | | | Part of the mission of the Alois Alzheimer Center is to contribute new information and knowledge that will help existing and future individuals and families touched by Alzheimer's disease. | | | In an effort to increase awareness about Alzheimer's disease and to dispel the myths and fallacies that surround this disease, the Alois Alzheimer Center provides a free Speakers Bureau to the community. |
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| | Alzheimer's Disease |
| | In 1906, Dr. Alzheimer described changes in the brain tissue of a woman who had died of an unusual mental illness. | | | AD is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist. | | | Alzheimer’s disease advances in stages, ranging from mild forgetfulness to severe dementia. |
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