Nov 26, Dr. Alois Alzheimer: Today in the History of Psychology (26th November 1901)

At a Hospital for the Mentally ill in Frankfurt, Germany, Dr. Alois Alzheimer interviewed and examined Auguste Deter; famously known as patient 'Auguste D' whose symptoms included, paranoia, aphasia and severe memory and psychosocial impairment. Keen to study the neuropathological features of her illness, Dr. Alzheimer maintained a close interest in the case of Auguste D up until her death on the 8th April 1906. On the 4th November 1906, at the 37th annual conference of South West German psychiatrists, in T übingen, Germany, Alzheimer gave a lecture titled 'Über eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde' (About a Peculiar Disease of the Cerebral Cortex) in which he outlined his clinical observations in the case of Auguste D. This was the first time that this particular form of dementia (which at the behest of Emil Kraepelin became known as Alzheimer ’s disease) had been identified and described.
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