Science · 1864–1915

Alois Alzheimer

German psychiatrist who first described the symptoms of dementia

Did you know?He first described the condition after studying a patient named Auguste Deter, who suffered from profound memory loss.

Alois Alzheimer ( AHLTS-hy-mər, German:; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin. He is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin later identified as Alzheimer's disease.

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