A Doença de Alzheimer foi descrita pela primeira vez na Alemanha, no início do século 20. É responsável pela maior parte dos casos de demência, que têm crescido de modo acelerado com o envelhecimento da população mundial.
Créditos das imagens:
1, 2, 4, 6, 15 a 17 Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt/ Germany, Nervenklinik Nr. 3.580 (patient file Auguste Deter)
3 – Carl Friedrich Mylius, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt
5 – Alois-Alzheimer-Geburtshaus Marktbreit
7, 66 a 69 -Alzheimer Research Initiative eV
8, 10 a 13, 29, 41 – Wellcome Collection;
9 – Folger Shakespeare Library
14 – ANNO – Österreichische National Bibliothek
18 e 30 – Archive for History of Psychiatry – Department of Psychiatry University of Munich, Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience;
19 – The New York Public Library Digital Collections
20 – Dr. Timo Mappes, www.musoptin.com
21 a 23 – Graeber MB, Kosel S, Grasbon-Frodl E, Moller HJ, Mehraein P. Histopathology and APOE genotype of the first Alzheimer disease patient, Auguste D. Neurogenetics. 1998;1(3):223-8
24 a 27 – Alois Alzheimer, Bernard Becker Medical Library
28 – DSpace – University of Tartu
31 – Brandeis University Libraries, Internet Archive (at archive.org)
32 e 33 – King’s College London, Internet Archive (at archive.org)
34 e 35 – Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 1967, U.S. National Library of Medicine
36, 37, 45 – U.S. National Library of Medicine
38 – National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
39, 54, 56 – Nottebrock, Alzheimer Research Initiative eV
40 – Philadelphia Water Department;
42 – Ernest Hamlin Baker, TIME
43 – GSK Heritage Archive
44 – Gift of Charles Pfizer & Company, Division of Medicine & Science, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
46 – IWM
47 – David, Flickr
48 – Andrea Squatrito, Flickr
49 e 51 – Gerd Altmann, Pixabay
50 – WHO
52 – Seb Oliver/Cultura Creative (RF), Alamy Stock Photo
53 – Jacob Wackerhausen, iStock FOTOLIA
55 – Gabriele Rohde, Adobe Stock
57 – Osckay Bence, Shutterstock
58 – Nadya Chetah, Shutterstock
59 – Bev Sykes, Flickr;
60 – oneinchpunch, Shutterstock
63 – sabthai, Shutterstock
61- Marco Verch, Flickr
62 – Agência Brasil, EBC
64 – Fotoluminate LLC, Shutterstock
65 – Portal Brasil, EBC
66 a 69 – Image courtesy of the National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health