Adolf Hitler's Parkinson's disease and an attempt to analyse his personality structure.

It has been proved that Adolf Hitler suffered from idiopathic Parkinson's disease. No indication for postencephalitic parkinsonism was found in the clinical symptoms or the case history. Professor Max de Crinis established his diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in Hitler early in 1945 and informed the SS leadership, who decided to initiate treatment with a specially prepared 'antiparkinsonian mixture' to be administered by a physician.

Memory dysfunction in Parkinson patients: an analysis of verbal learning processes.

The German version of the California verbal learning test (Münchner Gedächtnis-Test) was administered to compare memory functions of 45 Parkinson patients and 32 healthy controls. Although the Parkinson patients were within their age norm in their performance on standard intelligence and memory tests, a significant pattern of impaired learning was observed with the MGT. While learning capacity showed a linear increase, it was altogether lower than that of healthy normals.