Auguste Angellier. Son œuvre poétique

Auguste D and Alzheimer's disease.

On Nov 4, 1906, Alois Alzheimer gave a remarkable lecture, in which he described for the first time a form of dementia that subsequently, at the suggestion of Emil Kraepelin, became known as Alzheimer’s disease. In his lecture, at the 37th Conference of South-West German Psychiatrists in Tübingen, Alzheimer described a patient called Auguste D, a 51-year-old woman from Frankfurt who had shown p...

Le Laboratoire de Lague: Son role et son expansion

Auguste D. to a cognitive neuropsychology approach

Since the observation of Auguste D. by Alois Alzheimer, it is an acknowledged fact that writing is one of the cognitive functions that are weakened early in Alzheimer s disease (AD). This study aimed to examine the cognitive nature of this disorder and question the ’ hypothesis of a standard progression ( ) from lexical to other central and more peripheral processes. A large group Platel et al....

Auguste Forel on ants and neurology.

Auguste Forel was born in 1848 in the French part of Switzerland. He developed a lifelong passion for myrmecology in his childhood, but chose medicine and neuropsychiatry to earn his living. He first undertook a comparative study of the thalamus under Theodor Meynert in Vienna and then, from 1872 to 1879, he worked as Assistant Physician to Bernhard von Gudden in Munich. This led in 1877 to his...

Cloud SON: A New Member of the SON Family