Alzheimer’s disease was discovered in 1906, by a German physician named Alois Alzheimer (Alzheimer’s Association). Dr. Alzheimer was given a patient that had been previously diagnosed as senile. He found it strange for this woman to have dementia at the young age of fifty-one. He monitored her condition from 1901 until she died in 1906. When she died he was given permission from her family to perform an autopsy on her body (Altman 14). During the examination of her brain he saw a dramatic shrinkage in the size of it (Alzheimer’s Association). He took a piece of tissue from the cerebral cortex of the brain to examine under a microscope. He found bundles of dead nerve fibers throughout the tissue. Dr. Alzheimer concluded that he had found a new disease (Altman 16). After Dr. Alzheimer published his findings in 1907, Emil Kraepelin, a psychiatrist famous for naming brain disorders, named this newly discovered disease after Dr. Alzheimer (Alzheimer’s Association).......

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Title: Alzheimers
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