Alois Alzheimer - Alois Alzheimer Alois Alzheimer (June 14, 1864 - December 19, 1915), a German neurologist, was a colleague of Emil Kraepelin who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimers Disease. He observed the disease in 1906. He was born in a small town called Marktbreit, Bavaria, where his father served in the office of notary public. Alzheimer attended Aschaffenburg, Tübingen, Berlin, and Würzberg universities. He received a medical degree at Würzberg University in 1887. In the following year, he spent five months assisting mentally ill women, before he took an office in the city mental assylum in Frankfurt am Main: the Städtische Irrenanstalt. Emil Stoli was the dean of that assylum (1852-1922). Another neurologist, Franz Nissl (1860-1919), began to work in that same.
Alzheimer's disease - Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) or senile dementia of Alzheimer's type is a disorder of loss of mental functions resulting from brain tissue changes; the causes are yet to be fully elucidated (at least two genes predisposing to AD have been identified). The diagnostic characteristic of AD development of amyloid plaque in the brain. The typical visible symptom is progressive and chronic memory loss. Alzheimer's disease is also manifested in behavorial changes, which may even include sudden periods of defiance, abusive behavior, violence, etc. in people who have no previous history of such behavior (rarely, an affected person experiences euphoria). Thus, Alzheimer's disease presents a problem in patient management, as well. The symptoms of the disease as a distinct nosologic entity were first identified by Emil.
June 14 - state of Vietnam is formed 1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau 1952 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus 1954 - The first nationwide civil defense drill is held in the United States 1956 - Words "under God" added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance 1966 - The Vatican announces abolishment of the Index of Prohibited Books 1982 - War ends between United Kingdom and Argentina over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands (the "Falklands War") 1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah Births 1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, composer (+ 1751) 1736 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, mathematician, grandfather of soil mechanics (+ 1806) 1832 - Nikolaus Otto, engineer (+ 1891) 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (+ 1896) 1864 - Alois Alzheimer,.
Emil Kraepelin - of symptoms. Thus, Kraepelin's system is a method for pattern recognition, not grouping by common symptoms. Kraepelin also demonstrated specific patterns in the genetics of these disorders and specific and characteristic patterns in their course and outcome. Generally speaking, there tend to be more schizophrenics among the relatives of schizophrenic patients than in the general population, while manic-depression is more frequent in the relatives of manic-depressives. He also reported a pattern to the course and outcome of these conditions. Kraepelin believed that schizophrenia had a deteriorating course in which mental function continuously (although perhaps erratically) declines, while manic-depressive patients experienced a course of illness which was intermittent, where patients were relatively symptom-free during the intervals which separate acute episodes. This led Kraepelin to name what we now know as schizophrenia, dementia.
August 2003 - as main weekly prayers are ending. More than 125 people are killed, including the influential cleric Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shiite leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Dozens are injured. [1] class="external">[1 [1] [1] [1] Israel is alleged to have contingency plans to bomb an Iranian nuclear power plant if it begins producing weapons grade material. [1] Tensions flare again over the main religious site in Jerusalem, the location of both the Temple Mount and the Noble Sanctuary. The holy site had been closed to non-Muslims since September 2000. Israeli officials say they are maintaining calm over a site sacred to three religions. But Muslim authorities say the Israeli government is risking a backlash here and throughout the Muslim world. [1] Occupation of.
Tübingen - city contains many picturesque buildings from previous centuries, and lies on the river Neckar. Tübingen's Eberhard Karls university dates from 1477. Tübingen itself dates from the 6th or 7th century. Famous Tübingen residents include the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, Alois Alzheimer, from whom Alzheimer's disease takes its name and Friedrich Miescher, who was the first to discover DNA. Wilhelm Schickhard developed the first mechanical computer. Hegel and Johannes Kepler also studied in Tübingen. Ann Arbor in Michigan is Tübingen's sister city in the United States of America. Other cities twinned with Tübingen are Aix en Provence (France), Monthey (Switzerland), Durham (United Kingdom), Aigle (Switzerland), Perugia (Umbria, Italy), and Petrozavodsk ( Karelia, Russia). External Links City's official website (German) Eberhard Karls University (English and German) Tourism information (German) Tübingen page of German National.
Neurologist - who is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of neurologic diseases. Famous neurologists include Alois Alzheimer (Germany) Jules Cotard (France) Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (Germany) Anita Harding Alfons Maria Jakob (Germany) Oliver Sacks.
Familial Alzheimer disease - Familial Alzheimer disease Familial Alzheimer disease is an uncommon form of Alzheimer's disease that comes on earlier in life (usually between 30 and 60 years of age) and is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Clinical Features 2 Genetic causes and mutations 2.1 PSEN1 - Presenilin 1 2.2 PSEN2 - Presenilin 2 2.3 APP – Amyloid beta (A4) precursor protein 2.4 APOE - Apolipoprotein E 3 Other mutations and a summary 4 References Clinical Features Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. It usually occurs in old age, and starts gradually with early signs being forgetfulness, particularly in remembering recent events and the names of people and things. There may be some other cognitive difficulties early on, but nothing.
Alois Brunner - Alois Brunner Alois Brunner Alois Brunner (1912 - ) is an Austrian war criminal who was Adolph Eichmann's right hand man. He served as a trouble shooter for the SS deportations to concentration camps from France. Brunner lost an eye and several fingers from letter bombs sent him years ago by Israel’s intelligence services. While unsuccessfully hunted by Simon Wiesenthal, he is believed to live in Damascus, Syria using the alias Dr. Georg Fischer. In December, 1999, rumors surfaced saying that he had died in 1996 and had been buried. However, German journalists visiting Syria said Brunner was living at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus..
Alois Kayser - Alois Kayser Alois Kayser (1877 - October 21, 1944) was a German Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost 40 years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar (and possibly a Nauruan dictionary). In 1943 he was deported along with most of the Nauruan population by the Japanese to Micronesia, where he died. In his honour the government of Nauru named the technical school in the district Ewa after him. See also Philip Delaporte.
Kluver-Bucy syndrome - or faces. This disorder may result from a variety of conditions, including craniocerebral trauma; infections; Alzheimer's disease; Pick's disease of the brain; and cerebrovascular disorders..
January 14 - announces he was moving his television talk show from NBC to CBS. 1994 - President of the United States Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in the Ukraine. 1996 - Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal. 1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis). 1998 - An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people 2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. 2004 - Amartya Sen steps down.
Josef Mengele - Mengele was the eldest of three sons of Karl Mengele (1881- 1959) and his wife Walburga (d.1946), well-to-do Bavarian industrialists. His younger brothers were Karl Mengele (1912 - 1949) and Alois Mengele (1914 - 1974). Josef studied philosophy at Munich and obtained a doctorate with a dissertation in 1935 on racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw. He then went on to study medicine at Frankfurt University, choosing to concentrate on physical anthropology and genetics, and eventually working under Otmar von Verschuer at the Frankfurt University Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. In 1938 he obtained a doctorate in medicine with a dissertation on "Clan examinations at lip-jaw-palate-cleft." In 1931 at the age of 20 Mengele joined the Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet); he joined the SA in 1933, and.
Juliana of the Netherlands - like any ordinary Dutch woman. Like her mother had out of necessity, Queen Juliana began riding a bicycle for exercise and fresh air. She began visiting with the citizens of the nearby towns and, unannounced, would drop in on social institutions and schools. Her refreshingly straightforward manner and talk made her a powerful public speaker. On the international stage, Queen Juliana was particularly interested in the problems of developing countries, the refugee problem, and had a very special interest in child welfare, particularly in the developing countries. The New York Times called her "an unpretentious woman of good sense and great goodwill." On the night of January 31, 1953, the Netherlands was hit by the most destructive storm in more than five hundred years. Thirty breaches of the sea walls occurred.
Iris Murdoch - philosophy, including a study of Jean-Paul Sartre. She went on to produce twenty-five more novels (plus other works of philosophy and criticism) until 1995 when she became afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. It was at Oxford that she met and married John Bayley, a professor of English literature and also a novelist. The movie Iris stars Kate Winslet as the young Iris Murdoch and Dame Judi Dench as the older Iris descending into dementia. Iris Murdoch's novels are by turns intense and bizarre, and yet very civilized and carefully observed at the same time. Before it was generally accepted, she often created gay characters. Another recurring character type is the powerful and almost demonic male enchanter who imposes his will on everyone - a type which Murdoch is said to have modelled.
Iris (2001 movie) - as compared to her timid and scholarly partner Bayley (played by Hugh Bonneville), and their later life, when Murdoch (now played by Dame Judi Dench) was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and tended to by a frustrated Bayley (played by Jim Broadbent). The film, which was directed by Richard Eyre, is based on Bayley's memoir, An Elegy for Iris. Winslet was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Dench was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Iris at the two different stages in her life. Jim Broadbent, who played the older Bayley, received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role..
Harold Wilson - party and returned to Downing Street in 1974, after his successor, Heath, had failed to deal adequately with similar problems to those he had faced. As described in the article on Edward Heath, Wilson was responsible for coining the term Selsdon Man. This is the genesis of the habit of British political commentators of describing political developments by suffixing the word man (eg Essex Man), which is comparable with the (originally American) practice of identifying scandals by suffixing the word gate. Other memorable phrases attributed to Wilson include the phrase "the white heat of technology" describing the technology boom in Britain in the 1960s and, less favourably, the comment he made to attempt to reassure the British public after the 1967 devaluation of the pound: "This does not mean that the.
Have I Got News For You - was convicted of perjury, Hislop referred to him as "Jeffrey Archer, the liar" at every available opportunity. when ex-MI5 agent David Shayler was a guest on the show, a large television set was placed on the desk, showing him in a studio elsewhere - supposedly in Paris, where he was in hiding from Official Secrets Act charges. when Roy Hattersley didn't bother to appear for the June 4 1993 episode, he was replaced with a tub of lard, as "they possessed the same qualities and were liable to give similar performances". It was later announced that the tub of lard had been booked for a return appearance, though this turned out to be a ruse to disguise the appearance on the show of Salman Rushdie. The tub of lard was on.
Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein - billion. On July 30, 1967 at Vaduz, Liechtenstein he married his cousin Marie Aglaë, Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (born 1940). Their children are: Hereditary Prince Alois (born 1968) Maximilian Nikolaus Maria (born 1969) Constantin Ferdinand Maria (born 1972) Tatjana Nora Maria (born 1973) Preceded by: Franz Josef II List of Princes of Liechtenstein Succeeded by: (currently reigning).
History of Liechtenstein - Franz Josef II became the first Prince of Liechtenstein to take up permanent residence in Liechtenstein. He ruled from Vaduz until his death in 1989. Since World War II (in which Liechtenstein remained neutral) the country's low taxes have spurred outstanding economic growth. Liechtenstein became increasingly important as a financial center. In 1989, Prince Hans-Adam II succeeded his father to the throne, and in 1996, Russia returned the Liechtenstein family's archives, ending a long-running dispute between the two countries. In 1978, Liechtenstein became member of the Council of Europe, and then joined the United Nations in 1990, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 1991, and both the European Economic Area (EEA) and World Trade Organization in 1995. In a referendum on March 16, 2003, Prince Hans-Adam, who had threatened to.
