Major Appointments
Intern – Mental Asylum at Frankfurt am Main, 1888–1895
Senior Physician – Mental Asylum at Frankfurt am Main, 1895–1903
Researcher – Royal Psychiatric Clinic and District Mental Asylum, Munich, 1903–1912
Assistant Professor – Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 1904–1912
Chief Physician – Royal Psychiatric Clinic and District Mental Asylum, Munich, 1906–1909
Professor of Psychiatry – Psychiatry Clinic of Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Breslau, 1912–1915
Major Honors and Awards
Extraordinary Professor, Ludwig-Maximilian University (1909)
Geheimer Ministerialrat (Cabinet Councillor) (1915)
Landmark Clinical, Scientific, and Professional Contributions
Alois Alzheimer was both an excellent clinician and a notable researcher. He is best remembered for being the first to definitively describe the symptoms and cerebral lesions of the disease now known as Alzheimer’s Disease. Nonetheless, his contributions to science and medicine did not begin, nor do they end,...
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McClellan, K.S., Moore, A.B. (2011). Alzheimer, Alois (1864–1915). In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_585
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