Introduction to Alzheimer's Disease

Did you know that one out of three individuals will be affected by alzheimer's disease by the age of 80?
Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia seen in many as they age past 65. The first question I asked when beginning my own research on this specific topic was:
Where did the name for the disease originate? 
First discovered in 1906 by German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer. After performing an autopsy on a 55 year old female patient at the asylum he worked for. He found that beginning in 1901 the patient’s condition steadily deteriorated beginning with memory loss, speech difficulties, confusion, agitation, wandering, etc. During the autopsy he found her brain had shriveled and neurons has disappeared, at this point also discovering two of the main details of the disease; “neurofibrillary tangles” and “senile plaques”. The first public description of the disease was in 1906 in the presence of a group of psychiatrists.

http://www.alzdiscovery.org/index.php/alzheimers-disease/learn-more/the-discovery-of-alzheimers-disease/