Alzheimer's disease, named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, is a brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking capability.

老年痴呆症，又名阿尔茨海默病，是以这种病症的发现者爱罗斯·阿兹·海默医生的名字命名。这是一种缓慢破坏记忆力和思维能力大脑疾病，不可逆转且是递增的。

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Ever since it was described by Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1906 as a "peculiar" disease in a 51-year-old woman, doctors had considered it an oddity, a rare illness of middle, not old, age.

但自从alois Alzheimer医生1906年在给一位51岁的女患者诊断时把他描述为一种“特殊”疾病后，医生一直把这个病看成一种怪病，一种只有中年人(不是老年人)才会患的病。

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Alzheimer's disease, named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer is a brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking capability.

阿尔茨海默病，以医生爱罗斯·阿兹·海默的名字命名，是一种缓慢破坏记忆力和思维能力大脑疾病。

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In nineteen six, a German doctor,Alois Alzheimer, told about a dementia patient whose brain was studied after death.

VOA: special.2011.02.08

Everything is gone." It has been more than a century since a German doctor, Alois Alzheimer,told about a dementia patient whose brain was studied after death.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

The disease, which took on the name of the psychiatrist, Alois Alzheimer, still mystifies doctors a century later.

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More than a century after Alois Alzheimer first identified the disease that bears his name, it is still ultimately fatal, and no treatment is available to slow or stop its progression.

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The first hints about cellular debris came almost a century ago, when psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer studied the brains of demented patients after death and found them clogged with strange deposits he dubbed amyloid plaques.

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