Reduce Risk for Alzheimer's Disease - Aging Successfully - Video Lecture

UC Irvine
Lecture by Malcom B.Dick Ph.d
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Brain atrophy in older people

Alzheimer - Pathologic Changes in White Matter

Pathologic changes in the subcortical white matter were noted as early as 1854 by Durand-Fardel, > He described (brain interstitial atrophy) on macroscopic examination of the brain.

Binswanger first suggested that white matter changes might be associated with disease  symptoms. In 1894, he reported 8 patients with a complaints of dementia and having white matter lesions.

Alzheimer in 1902 provided histological confirmation.

http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/data/Journals/NP/3906/261.pdf