Discovery Of Alzheimer's Disease

The history of Alzheimer's Disease was first discovered by Dr. Alois Alzheimer in the early 1900's. After a woman had died Dr. Alzheimer examined her brain and discovered changes in the brain, which are still today used to detect Alzheimer’s Disease. When he made this discovery, at this point of history Alzheimer's Disease was only found in people under the age of 65 years old. Jorm notes, "Because it occurred in people who had not reached the conventional point of old age, it was described as a presenile dementia. At his time, dementias occurring in the elderly were labelled as senile dementia" (pg. 6). With more and more studies and autopsies of the brain they noticed that the disease was just a slow process and wasn't noticeable until after