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During Alzheimer’s tenure at the psychiatric clinic in Munich, students from various countries attended his classes and marveled at his teaching. He was well known for his hands-on style, moving among the different microscope workstations and discussing each student’s observations. Years later, many would recall the sight of Alzheimer bowed over a microscope with his pince-nez glasses dangling around his neck and a cigar in his mouth, which he would set on the workstation table to conduct his explanations. In April 1894, Alzheimer married Cecilia Geisenheimer, and the couple went on to have three children. The marriage made him financially independent, helping him support his own research. Cecilia died in 1901, and Alzheimer’s single younger sister, Elisabeth, came to Frankfurt to raise the children.Alzheimer died of heart failure on December 19, 1915, aged 51,

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A German housewife, "Auguste Deter Was the First Diagnosed Case With Alzheimer's Disease"

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A German housewife, "Auguste Deter Was the First Diagnosed Case With Alzheimer's Disease"

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Johanna Auguste Caroline Hochmann was born on 16 May 1850 and raised in Cassell (Kassel), Germany, into a working-class family  She had three siblings and was a daughter to Johannes Hohmann. He died when Auguste was at a young age. Even though Auguste's family was impoverished, she was well educated. She attended school in Cassell, and it is speculated that she may have been a student of Alzheimer's grandfather, Johann. He was a schoolmaster in Cassell during the time Auguste attended school. Further education would have never been considered for Auguste due to the social climate. Education is based upon social class and gender rather than skill. Auguste started work as a full-time seamstress assistant when she was at the age of 14. She continued this career until she married Carl (Karl) August Wilhelm Deter on 1 May 1873, at the age of 23.

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Carl Deter worked as a railway clerk since its opening in 1888. After marrying Carl, she moved to Frankfurt, Germany, to start her duty as a full-time housewife. Carl described their marriage as "Happy and harmonious". Together they had one daughter named Thekla. Auguste regularly cooked, cleaned and raised her daughter Thekla. However, during the late 1890s, Auguste exhibited a rapid escalation in memory loss and started showing symptoms of dementia, such as loss of memory, delusions, and even temporary vegetative states. March 1901, Auguste's behavior started to become out of control. She began to accuse Carl of being adulterous and soon became jealous. Auguste started to become inattentive with housework, purposely hid objects and lost her capacity to cook. She also developed insomnia, which caused her to drag sheets outside the house and scream for hours in the middle of the night. She became paranoid over neighbors and strangers as she believed someone was out to kill her. Alzheimer diagnosed the case as ‘presenile dementia’. Perceptions on symptoms of dementia have long existed in human history. However, objective and scientific knowledge on the illness of dementia have accumulated relatively recently.

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Since Dr. Alzheimer had never seen another case like hers, he obtained her family’s permission to perform an autopsy on her brain. When he examined it, he observed extensive atrophy, especially in the cortex—the thin outer layer of grey matter that is involved in memory, language, judgment, and thought in general. When Dr. Alzheimer sampled thin slices of this brain tissue, stained them with silver salts, and examined them under the microscope, he observed two types of abnormal deposits inside and in between the nerve cells. Other scientists had already observed such deposits, but this was the first time they had ever been observed in anyone so young. Alzheimer also described the histopathological findings of this disease. He reported peculiar changes in the neurofibrils: “In the centre of an otherwise almost normal cell there stands out one or several fibrils due to their characteristic thickness and peculiar impregnability”. He went on to describe the typical plaques, later named after him: “Numerous small miliary foci are found in the superior layers. They are determined by the storage of a peculiar material in the cortex”. Alzheimer continues: “all in all we have to face a peculiar disease process.

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Mr. Carl Deter, Had to accept to take a such a big decision.

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Mr. Carl Deter, Had to accept to take a such a big decision.

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Carl was unable to provide adequate care for his wife and then she later was admitted to a Mental Institution in Frankfurt, Germany on 25 November 1901. There, she was examined by Dr. Alois Alzheimer.Carl visited Auguste whenever possible, though he struggled to make payments for her care and stay. He it would have been more financially efficient to spend the time at work. Having difficulty keeping up with the payments, Carl continued insisting on getting her into a more affordable facility. Such a transfer would remove Auguste from Alzheimer's care. Carl continued to persist in transferring Auguste. When asking Alzheimer for an arrangement of hospital transfers, Alzheimer discouraged him from such a decision; Instead, he offered him an agreement for her to continue to receive care without cost in exchange for her medical records from her and her brain after her death, to which Carl gave a signed consent.

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The Institute for Insane Epileptics in Frankfurt.1864

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BALLS AND PLATES. Alois Alzheimer asks a collaborator (Gaetano Perusini) to look for cases similar to that of Auguste Deter and he finds three more cases, who were 45, 63 and 65 years old respectively when they died. In their necropsy, findings identical to those of Auguste Deter's brain appeared, that is, “tangles and plates”. Alzheimer himself also treated a patient hospitalized at the Royal Psychiatric Clinic, Johann Feigl, a fifty-six-year-old laborer, whose story reminds him of Auguste's. Johan has gross memory lapses while preserving automatisms that he eventually loses; for example, a song whose lyrics are constantly being dictated to him, but he remembers the melody. He died of pneumonia when he was 59 years old. Similar, but not identical, findings appear in the autopsy, and it is Kraepelin who records "Alzheimer's Disease" in Feigl's autopsy book. Feigl's clinical picture exactly matched Auguste's, but Alzheimer did not locate tangles in Feigl's brain (both brains are preserved). Alzheimer's contemporaries resolved the dilemma by choosing to claim that Feigl suffered from the "plaque only" variant of Alzheimer's Disease. But this raised a question, was Alzheimer's disease the same as "tangles and plaques"?

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Alzheimer’s disease gets its name from Alois Alzheimer, who in 1906, presented a paper in Tübingen, at a psychiatry conference.

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Alzheimer’s disease gets its name from Alois Alzheimer, who in 1906, presented a paper in Tübingen, at a psychiatry conference.

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He linked the clinical syndrome with the pathology that he saw in the lab. A lot of the basic research in Alzheimer’s disease traces back to that discovery 100 years ago of what the pathology of the disease was. There are two principal proteins that are involved, amyloid beta protein and tau protein.

Each of those constitutes the pathological hallmarks of the disease. Much of our research is founded on understanding how those proteins play a role in Alzheimer’s disease. On top of that we’ve learned a lot of new discoveries that have occurred in the last decade or so, with genetic identification of risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease.

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Emil Kraepelin left a significant legacy in the medical world. He is acknowledged as the father of scientific psychiatry.

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Emil Kraepelin left a significant legacy in the medical world. He is acknowledged as the father of scientific psychiatry.

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He tried to classified mental diseases systemically based on their symptoms, and grouped diseases, traditionally referred to as a mental illness, into maniac depression and schizophrenia designated as ‘dementia praecox’ in those days. In 1902, Kraepelin, who was conducting a study with Franz Nissl in Heidelberg, invited Alzheimer to the laboratory in Heidelberg to join his own research group. Alzheimer had the opportunity to rejoin his friend Nissl once more.

In April 1903, a psychiatry professor of Munich medical school who had led new construction of the mental hospital building died suddenly. The university authorities offered the vacancy to Kraepelin. Kraepelin accepted the request and then moved his research team, including Alzheimer, to Munich. Alzheimer worked as a senior researcher without payment. However, because of his marriage to a wealthy woman, Alzheimer could a devote himself to study without financial constraints.

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He was a Philadelphia-born artist who spent most of his life in London and then began to change said his wife, Patricia Utermohlen, an Art History Professor from London. Future portraits and drawings depicted the gamut of emotions that he was feeling as he descended into Dementia in to sadness, anger, and puzzlement to anxiety, emptiness, and resignation, she said. Portrait #2

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He was a Philadelphia-born artist who spent most of his life in London and then began to change said his wife, Patricia Utermohlen, an Art History Professor from London. Future portraits and drawings depicted the gamut of emotions that he was feeling as he descended into Dementia in to sadness, anger, and puzzlement to anxiety, emptiness, and resignation, she said. Portrait #2

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You can see, how his paintings reflecting a deeply sadness moments he was going through.

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You can see, how his paintings reflecting a deeply sadness moments he was going through.

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NY City.Even before he was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer disease in 1995, the paintings of William Utermohlen, a Philadelphia-born artist who spent most of his life in London, began to change his technique started to transform in 1991–1992, with the paintings reflecting sadness, as he tried to hang on to reality,” said his wife, Patricia Utermohlen, an art history professor from London. Future portraits and drawings depicted the gamut of emotions that he was feeling as he descended into dementia – from sadness, anger, and puzzlement to anxiety, emptiness, and resignation, she said.

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“Art critic Patricia Utermohlen discusses the work of her husband painter William Utermohlen. At the end of his career, the progression of his Alzheimer’s became apparent in a series of harrowing self-portraits. Fascinating, touching, and heart-breaking, in interview with Patricia Utermohlen.One of the most recognizable symptoms Utermohlen struggled with was the understanding of spatial relationships.  

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“Art critic Patricia Utermohlen discusses the work of her husband painter William Utermohlen. At the end of his career, the progression of his Alzheimer’s became apparent in a series of harrowing self-portraits. Fascinating, touching, and heart-breaking, in interview with Patricia Utermohlen.One of the most recognizable symptoms Utermohlen struggled with was the understanding of spatial relationships.  

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Utermohlen’s portraits give us a different perspective of the emotional experience behind the clinical disease.  Scientists have explained Alzheimer’s as a neurodegenerative disease that largely relies on a protein called tau.  This protein ultimately tangles neurons in the brain resulting in cell death and irreversible brain atrophy (shrinkage). 

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Utermohlen’s portraits give us a different perspective of the emotional experience behind the clinical disease.  Scientists have explained Alzheimer’s as a neurodegenerative disease that largely relies on a protein called tau.  This protein ultimately tangles neurons in the brain resulting in cell death and irreversible brain atrophy (shrinkage). 

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NY City.Even before he was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer disease in 1995, the paintings of William Utermohlen, a Philadelphia-born artist who spent most of his life in London, began to change.“His technique started to transform in 1991–1992, with the paintings reflecting sadness, as he tried to hang on to reality” 

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NY City.Even before he was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer disease in 1995, the paintings of William Utermohlen, a Philadelphia-born artist who spent most of his life in London, began to change.“His technique started to transform in 1991–1992, with the paintings reflecting sadness, as he tried to hang on to reality” 

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It is also worth noting that these paintings mark the last time that Utermohlen uses short noun titles.  Following his 1995 painting titled “Blue Skies”, his titles take a turn to much more heartfelt and painful titles such as, “Self Portrait (sad)” and “Broken Figure.

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It is also worth noting that these paintings mark the last time that Utermohlen uses short noun titles.  Following his 1995 painting titled “Blue Skies”, his titles take a turn to much more heartfelt and painful titles such as, “Self Portrait (sad)” and “Broken Figure.

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Mr. William Utermohlen, and his own portraits, reflecting his feelings when he got This symptom is noticeable throughout the rest of his artistic career as depicted in some of his more disorienting pieces.

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Mr. William Utermohlen, and his own portraits, reflecting his feelings when he got This symptom is noticeable throughout the rest of his artistic career as depicted in some of his more disorienting pieces.

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NY City.Even before he was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer disease in 1995, the paintings of William Utermohlen, a Philadelphia-born artist who spent most of his life in London, began to change.“His technique started to transform in 1991–1992, with the paintings reflecting sadness, as he tried to hang on to reality,” said his wife, Patricia Utermohlen, an art history professor from London.Future portraits and drawings depicted the gamut of emotions that he was feeling as he descended into dementia – from sadness, anger, and puzzlement to anxiety, emptiness, and resignation, she said.

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NY City.Even before he was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer disease in 1995, the paintings of William Utermohlen, a Philadelphia-born artist who spent most of his life in London, began to change.“His technique started to transform in 1991–1992, with the paintings reflecting sadness, as he tried to hang on to reality,” said his wife, Patricia Utermohlen, an art history professor from London.Future portraits and drawings depicted the gamut of emotions that he was feeling as he descended into dementia – from sadness, anger, and puzzlement to anxiety, emptiness, and resignation, she said.

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The only thing the people with Dementia or Alzheimer's, need is love,attention,hugs, someone to talk to and make memories,and remembering they will feel very happy and peaceful.However,physical contact is vitally important to a person’s emotional wellbeing. People with dementia or Alzheimer's continue to need loving, safe relationships and caring touch. However, they will vary in their individual ways of giving and receiving affection, and the way in which their dementia affects that ability.

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The only thing the people with Dementia or Alzheimer's, need is love,attention,hugs, someone to talk to and make memories,and remembering they will feel very happy and peaceful.However,physical contact is vitally important to a person’s emotional wellbeing. People with dementia or Alzheimer's continue to need loving, safe relationships and caring touch. However, they will vary in their individual ways of giving and receiving affection, and the way in which their dementia affects that ability.

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Increased brain stimulation – brain stimulation, if not intervened with, will progressively decline, so Art Therapy provides a way to stimulate their minds and help them to engage in simple activities more easily. Studies have shown that cognitive development will improve through art therapy techniques. Hear about some of the ways in which arts have been applied in communal settings to facilitate in-the-moment experiences for people living with dementia.
The arts in practice

The ways arts-based practices, such as those applied in With All, enable learning and remove barriers between people and The twin study reported that musicians were 64% less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment or dementia,

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Creating successful arts-based groups for people living with dementia.

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Creating successful arts-based groups for people living with dementia.

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For over 20 years Wigmore Hall Learning has been giving people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities opportunities to take part in creative music making, engaging a broad and diverse range of people through innovative creative projects, concerts, workshops and online resources. Research suggests that listening to or singing songs can provide emotional and behavioral benefits for people with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. Musical memories are often preserved in Alzheimer's disease because key brain areas linked to musical memory are relatively undamaged by the disease.

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Isn't dementia a common part of aging?                                                                                                 

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Isn't dementia a common part of aging?                                                                                                 

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No,Dementia is not a normal part of aging,many older adults live their entire lives without dementia. Normal aging can include weakening of the muscles and  bones, hardening of the arteries and blood vessels, and some age-related memory changes that could manifest  changes themselves. It includes too,the loss of cognitive functioning — thinking, remembering, learning, and reasoning — and behavioral abilities to the extent that it interferes with a person's quality of life and activities.Forgetfulness can be a normal part of aging. As people get older, changes occur in all parts of the body, including the brain.

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The best  gifts that God gave us are our Parents!  Love and take care of them! don't wait until it's too late to tell them how much you love them and how much you care about them, because when they are gone, no matter how loud you cry, they will no longer listen to you! They just need to feel your love!You can't copy and paste them.It is a disease that affects how the brain works.It is not contagious.

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The best  gifts that God gave us are our Parents!  Love and take care of them! don't wait until it's too late to tell them how much you love them and how much you care about them, because when they are gone, no matter how loud you cry, they will no longer listen to you! They just need to feel your love!You can't copy and paste them.It is a disease that affects how the brain works.It is not contagious.

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Dementia: A group of thinking and social symptoms that interferes with daily functioning. Symptoms include forgetfulness, limited social skills, and thinking abilities so impaired that it interferes with daily functioning. Medications and therapies may help manage symptoms. Alzheimer's could be the cause of dementia. 

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Dementia: A group of thinking and social symptoms that interferes with daily functioning. Symptoms include forgetfulness, limited social skills, and thinking abilities so impaired that it interferes with daily functioning. Medications and therapies may help manage symptoms. Alzheimer's could be the cause of dementia. 

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If one of your parents suffers from Dementia or Alzheimer's, do not forget the love, the dedication and patience that they had with you when you were a kid; they deserve all your love and and patience. And don't forget that you will walk in the same road when you getting older too.

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If one of your parents suffers from Dementia or Alzheimer's, do not forget the love, the dedication and patience that they had with you when you were a kid; they deserve all your love and and patience. And don't forget that you will walk in the same road when you getting older too.

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It'sAlthough a person with Alzheimer's or Dementia Have the Right to Be Loved. Disease make them not be able to communicate their love or display their emotions as in the past, their soul still yearns to feel loved and wanted. Dementia person Have the Right to Be Loved

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It'sAlthough a person with Alzheimer's or Dementia Have the Right to Be Loved. Disease make them not be able to communicate their love or display their emotions as in the past, their soul still yearns to feel loved and wanted. Dementia person Have the Right to Be Loved