The Lancet Neurology
Published: Septiembre 2017
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(17)30258-2
Autor: Emmanuel Drouin, Guillaume Drouin
Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, was the first to describe the clinical and pathological features of a then unrecognised brain disease. In 1895, Alzheimer described “arteriosclerotic brain atrophy”.1 This notion was important for differentiating arterosclerotic dementia from general paralysis since…