Qui a lu Auguste Lafontaine ?

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...

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....

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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...

Ppcdt / Qui / 58985 / 2004 Pi

I became PI for this project in August 2006, following the sad loss of Professor António Xavier. At the time, Pedro Quintas was employed by this project as a BI and he had been given extensive training in biophysical methods. Our first priority was the production of a series of mutants of cytochrome c” from Methylophilus methylotrophus designed to probe the mechanism of ligand exchange. Despite...