1835 PRICHARD, James Cowles (1786 – 1848)

A treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind.

Prichard, better known for his work in the field of anthropology (No. 159), was the first to describe moral insanity. He described a syndrome he called incoherence or senile dementia. Alzheimer (No. 4956) may have des…

GMN 4928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6141

1907 ALZHEIMER, Alois (1864 – 1915)

Ueber eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde.

“Alzheimer’s disease” –presenile dementia. Preliminary note in Neurol. Zbl., 1906, 25, 1134. English translation in Arch. neurol., 1969, 21, 109-110, and in K. Bick (ed.) The early story of Alzheimer’s disease, New Yo…

GMN 4956 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6290

1911 ALZHEIMER, Alois (1864 – 1915)

Ūber eigenartige Krankheitsfälle des späteren Alters.

In this record of his continuing research on what in 1910 Kraepelin called Alzheimersche Krankheit (Alzheimer's disease) Alzheimer provided detailed history, clinical signs, symptoms descriptions, pathologic and histo…

GMN 13596 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15875

1987 HACHINSKI, Vladimir (1941 – ); STEINGART, Allan; MERSKEY, Harold (1929 – ); ET AL

Cognitive and neurologic findings in subjects with diffuse white matter lucencies on computed tomographic scan (Leuko-Araiosis).

"Abstract: As part of a prospective clinicopathologic study, a cohort of 105 "normal" elderly volunteers was investigated with computed tomographic scans, psychometric testing (Extended Scale for Dementia [ESD]) and n…

GMN 14116 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16427