Abstract
When in September 1907 a certain Alois Alzheimer [1] reported on a case of a new type of dementia, he hardly raised a discussion. Alzheimer was an outsider and the disease later to bear his name was considered, if anything, an exotic entity.
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Cervós-Navarro, J. (1991). Vascular Dementia: The Search for a Correlate. In: Hartmann, A., Kuschinsky, W., Hoyer, S. (eds) Cerebral Ischemia and Dementia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76208-6_6
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