German psychiatrist and pathologist Alois Alzheimer named the illness in 1923 following post-mortem examinations of Pick's patients
In 1912, Dr. Samuel Wilson described a disorder he called "progressive lenticular degeneration." He noted the familial nature of the condition, and also that it was likely to be caused by a toxin affecting the liver.
It is named for an American neurologist, Samuel A. K. Wilson, who first described it in 1912.
He is the first person that described the Huntington disease.
George Huntington who was a young physician, first described the disease in 1872.
Machado-Joseph disease was first described in 1972 among the descendants of Portuguese-Azorean immigrants to the United States, including the family of William Machado
The disease was first described in the 5th century BC by Hippocrates.
Caused by the GSS prion, this disease was first described in 1928.
It was first described in 1977 and the microbe was identified in 1982.
The disease was first described in the 5th century BC by Hippocrates.
The Norwegian neurologist , Sigvald Refsum first described the disorder in 1946.
The condition was first described by Frederick Lewy in 1941 when he described Lewy bodies, which are abnormal inclusions in the cytoplasm (components of a cell outside the nucleus) of cells found in patients who had Parkinson's disease
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