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Geroinfo 2014; 9 (1)

Demencias y enfermedad de Alzheimer un recorrido por la historia

Llibre GJJ, García AL, Díaz MJP

Language: Spanish
References: 19
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ABSTRACT

Dementias and Alzheimer´s disease in particular have transformed into a growing problem in the medical and socioeconomic order, a lot of investigations have been developed at world in search of a cure, however just few have been devoted to pick up the history and evolution of this syndrome. Motivated by this situation was carried out a revision of the national and international literature with the objective of determining the historical antecedents of Demencial Syndrome. The present revision offer an up-to-date panoramic on the emergence and evolution of Demencial Syndrome as a medical entity, and also give a special importance to Alzheimer´s disease, concluding that was Esquirol, the first one in using the term Dementia and it was Alois Alzheimer the first one in referring to the illness that takes his name after the description of the Auguste case.


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