Balance the Brain Professional Corporation, United States
Opinion
A Scholarly Review of Estradiol and Alzheimer's Disease
Author(s): Kelli Kemenah Mauric*
Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common neurodegenerative disease in the worldwide classified as both a genetic and environmental disease similar to hypertension, cardiovascular disease, major depression and schizophrenia. In 1906, a German psychiatrist named, Dr Alois Alzheimer, followed a case of a 51-year-old woman with aphasia, memory loss and behavior disturbance over several years. Upon her death, Dr. Alzheimer recorded notes of her postmortem brain autopsy that included “intracellular neurofibrillary tangles and neurotic amyloid plagues. Dr Alzheimer’s original clinical notes and postmortem brain pathology records were recovered in 1997. All notes and records concluded the 51- year-old woman had the modern diagnostic criteria of a disease more specific than current 1999 categories of neurosyphilis, vascular dementia, and senile dementia. Emil Kraeplin suggested.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/ 2471-2701.22.9(7).338
