Alzheimer and vascular brain disease: Senile dementia
Alois Alzheimer is best known for his description of a novel disease, subsequently named after him. However, his wide range of interests also included vascular brain diseases. He described Senile dementia, a highly heterogeneous condition, and was able not only to distinguish it from syphilitic brain disease, but also to discriminate two clinicopathological subtypes, that may be labeled a "arteriosclerotic subtype", comparable to the present clinicopathological continuum of "Vascular cognitive impairment", and another as a "neurodegenerative subtype", characterized by primary [cortical] ganglion cell [nerve cells] degeneration, possibly foreshadowing a peculiar presenile disease that he was to describe some years later and would carry his name. He also considered the possibility of a senile presentation of this disease subtype, which was described by Oskar Fischer a short time later. Considering the clinicopathological overlapping features of the "arteriosclerotic subtype" of Senile dementia with Arteriosclerotic atrophy of the brain, it might be possible to consider that both represent a single condition.
Main Authors: | Engelhardt,Eliasz, Grinberg,Lea T. |
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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Academia Brasileira de Neurologia, Departamento de Neurologia Cognitiva e Envelhecimento
2015
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Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642015000200184 |
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