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In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
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Emil Kraepelin
German psychiatrist (1856–1926)
Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist. H. J. Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Alzheimer's disease
Progressive neurodegenerative disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and is the most common form of dementia accounting for around 60–70% of cases. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Alois Alzheimer
German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)
Alois Alzheimer 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.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)