NEUR 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Alois Alzheimer, Auguste Deter, Neurofibrillary Tangle
8 Mar 2017
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There are many varieties of dementia, each of which have different biological causes, symptoms, and treatment options. We will focus on two disorders in this category: alzhei(cid:373)er"s disease and. Parki(cid:374)so(cid:374)"s disease: georgina will also briefly lecture on stroke (common amongst the elderly) Occurrence of dementia: an acquired and persistent syndrome of intellectual impairment. Common symptoms: confusion, forgetfulness, agitation, sleep disturbances, suspicious of people. It is estimated that dementia is present in: 85% of seniors aged 100-106: past, present and projected cases in canada: In 1901, alois alzheimer observed a patient at the frankfurt asylum named mrs. The 51-year-old patient had strange behavioral symptoms, including a loss of short-term memory. Deter died and alzheimer had the patient records and the brain sent to munich. He identified amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. November 1906 was the first time the pathology and the clinical symptoms of presenile dementia were presented together.
