Finding Alzheimer's Disease

By Ralf Dahm

How interest in one patient's suffering and confidence in the physical basis of mental illness led a German doctor to discover the devastating disorder

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March-April 2010

Volume 98, Number 2
Page 148

DOI: 10.1511/2010.83.148

I have, so to speak, lost myself ...
—Auguste D.

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