German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer first interviewed "Auguste D," a 51-year-old female patient who became the prototypic case of what later would be called Alzheimer's disease. Auguste D had been admitted to the Hospital for the Mentally Ill and Epileptics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Alzheimer documented the progress of the symptoms that eventually led to Auguste D's death in 1906. Alzheimer, working in Munich in 1906, requested and examined Auguste D's brain and first reported the amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles typical of Alzheimer's disease. The name of the disorder was proposed by Emil Kraepelin in 1910.

Type of event: Other Notable Event

Country: Germany

Region: Europe and the former USSR