Dementia and Major Neurocognitive Disorders: Some Lessons Learned One Century after the first Alois Alzheimer's Clinical Notes.

Geriatrics (Basel)

Global Community on Longevity, Comunità Mondiale della Longevità, Selargius 09047, Italy; IERFOP Onlus, Cagliari, 09134.

Published: January 2021

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Over 100 years ago, Alois Alzheimer presented the clinical signs and symptoms of what has been later called "Alzheimer Dementia" in a young woman whose name was Augustine Deter [...].

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