Why are researchers still fumbling in the quest to cure what is arguably one of the most important diseases confronting ...

When she died, the doctor conducted an autopsy, finding in her brain two suspicious proteins: sticky plaques between her ...

But until recently, those efforts have been focused primarily on the brain (where the obvious symptoms of the disease occur), leaving out a potentially crucial factor that Dr. Alois Alzheimer ...

Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller was the first Black psychiatrist and neurologist in the United States but has long been overlooked.

In 1903, German researcher and pathologist Dr. Alois Alzheimer — whom the disease was eventually named after — was searching for foreign researchers who could assist him in brain research at ...

Alzheimer’s is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist who first identified the condition in 1906. It is characterised by the accumulation of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in ...

In 1903, German researcher and pathologist Dr. Alois Alzheimer — whom the disease was eventually named after — was searching for foreign researchers who could assist him in brain research at ...