Alzheimer's Disease is memory and brain disease named after which person?

• A. Dr. Alois Alzheimer
• B. Dr. John Down
• C. Lou Gehrig
• D. Dr. James Parkinson

Answer: (A)

In medicine, many diseases carry names that honor the physician who first described them. Alzheimer's disease is named after Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist who, in 1906, documented a patient with progressive memory loss and cognitive decline and linked those symptoms to distinct brain changes. These observations established the eponym and the disease's association with a memory-brain disorder. The other names reflect different conditions named for other physicians: Down syndrome after John Langdon Down, ALS after Lou Gehrig, and Parkinson's disease after James Parkinson. So the best answer is the doctor who first described the condition: Alois Alzheimer.