Alois Alzheimer (* 14. June 1864 in broad; "† 19 December 1915 in Breslau) was a German psychiatrist and neuro pathologist and described as the first a dementia illness, which is called after it to today Alzheimer illness.

Life

Alois Alzheimer was the oldest son from the second marriage of the notary Eduard Alzheimer and his Mrs. Barbara Theresia shrubs, a sister of the 1862 deceased first wife, EH Maria shrubs. After school attendances in market broad and Aschaffenburg Alois Alzheimer began with the medicine study in peppering castle, which he - after an intermediate stay at the University of - terminated there 1888 with the note "„very well "“. Its 1887 finished, only 17 sides comprehensive thesis was concerned with the function "„of the "“. 1888 applied Alzheimer successfully as Assistenzarzt with of the psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann created "„the urban institute for err and Epilepti "“in Frankfurt/Main. With united forces the director/conductor of the institute, Emil Sioli, its upper physician Franz Nissl and Alzheimer introduced a new working method for spirit patient, which non restraint it as "„"“designated and whose substantial characteristic the avoidance of straitjackets, obligation feeding and other means of coercion was. Instead inserted in large awake halls the bed treatment of the patients, later the therapy of particularly jerky patients by warming continuous baths one practiced, whose water temperature of the personnel was supervised. Some patients to move in the park of the hospital freely other one was permitted even to trips into the environment was carried forward.

1894 became acquainted with Alzheimer Cecilie Geisenheimer. From the marriage with it the children Gertrud, Hans and Maria followed. The following time was coined/shaped by family luck and vocational satisfaction. 1901 got sick to Alzheimers Mrs. Cecilie and died in the same summer. In order to master its grief concerning this, Alzheimer fell itself into the work. On 25 November 1901 it met the female patient, who should make it famous: Augusts Deter. Their married man personally had delivered it in the institute, because he had for approximately one year only problems with their. It, a before inconspicuous and good woman had become amusing, it could not obviously perform no more the simplest things in the household, hid instead at home, of it, troubled to be pursued and troubled and for its part the entire neighbourhood spoke all possible articles in importunate way.

Alzheimer logged - like always - the first data and findings. He asked:

"“As you are

"“Augusts"”.

"“Augusts"”.

"“As their man is - Hesitates Augusts Deter, answers finally:

"“I believe"… Augusts"”.

Alzheimer determined that the female patient did not have orientation over time or place of residence, to hardly remember could at details from its life and often answers gave, which were located in no purchase to the question and remained also otherwise without connection. Augustes tendencies changed between fear, distrust, refusal and Weinerlichkeit, one could them rapid not alone through the premises of the hospital go let, since them were inclined to it, all other patient into the face to seize and but from these were struck. It was not the first time that Alzheimer met the picture of complete mental confusion - with earlier cases he had attached similar findings had, this however no meaning again and again, because the patients were often approximately 70 years and older. Augusts Deter made curious it, because at the time of their admission it was only 51 years old. The next weeks were coined/shaped by further patient questionings, which made the heavy mental confusion obvious, and which were accompanied repeated of Augusts with a jammernden "„oh God "“. In an interview she expressed several times: "„I lost myself as it were "“- she was obviously aware of her helplessness. Alzheimer gave a name to the disease picture: "„The illness of forgetting "“.

The year 1902 brought a further turn: Alzheimer left Frankfurt behind itself and became at the psychiatric university clinic in Heidelberg a scientific assistant with professor Emil Kraepelin, which carried him forward after its appointment 1904 also to Munich. Here Alzheimer still completed its Habilitationsschrift histological studies in the same year for the differential diagnostics of the progressive paralysis. Research, scientific publications as well as series of lectures coined/shaped this time. Nevertheless he had not forgotten Augusts Deter. Regularly it inquired in Frankfurt about its state of health and prevented themselves its transfer planned from cost reasons into another hospital, since it wanted to absolutely again examine this female patient - after her death.

On 9 April of the yearly 1906 Alzheimer on its job in Munich a sudden call from Frankfurt overtook: Augusts Deter had deceased. Alzheimer could be dispatched the patient document and the brain of the female patient. The document resulted in that Augustes mental condition had worsened in the last years substantial. Cause of death was one by Dekubitus (Wundliegen) caused blood poisoning. It dissected its brain, and which resulted in investigation that nerve cells and nerve cell contacts were provable failed and protein deposits in the form of Plaques in the entire brain cortex. Alzheimer published its realizations in writings and on lecture journeys.

Alzheimers last life station was Breslau. At the Schlesi Friedrich William university he took over a tidy Professur and became a director "„of the royally psychiatric ones and mental hospital "“. a rapid purge of its health becomes 1915 apparent with it. Heart complaints, kidney failure and difficulty in breathing pointed on a rapid end: on 19 December 1915 it died in the circle of its family and at the main cemetery in Frankfurt/Main beside its wife was buried.

Literature

• free of charge (GPL), on English: biography with that internationally Brain Research organization
• Konrad and Ulrike bricklayer: Alzheimer - the life of a physician and the career of an illness; Piper publishing house Munich 1998
• Anne Eckert: Alois Alzheimer and the Alzheimer illness. Pharmacy in our time 31 (4), P. 356 - 360 (2002),
• Michael Alzheimer. Cunning. 1999. ISBN 3612651102 bind. Out of print one brosch: 3471793895. Deutschspr. Biography. Table of contents here.

Related links

• Laboratory for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Research - Professor Dr. Christian Haass (EN)
• Biography (EN) with that internationally Brain Research organization
• Calendar sheet to Alois Alzheimer on the sides of Germany radio culture
• The history OF "“Alzheimer's disease"” - Did Alois Alzheimer really "“more discover"” the disease that became named after (EN)
• Alois Alzheimer, newer one work over the Dementia senilis and on container illness which are based the brain diseases, in: Monthly review for psychiatry and neurology 1898 3. pp. 101-115

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