Neuropathologist and fist reasearcher to identify brain abnormalities that Alois Alzheimer received credit for. Dr. Fischer was born in Slany, Czechoslovakia, and attended medical schools in Prague and Strasbourg. Working for the German army. he served as psychiatrist during World War I. It was during this time that he met his wife, Franziska. Like his more famous contemporary, Alois Alzheimer, he concentrated his research on senile dementia. He published his findings in medical journals in 1907, 1910, and 1912. These findings identified and named the plaques, and were more detailed, comprehensive, and precise than those later discovered by Alois Alzheimer. Although both his findings and Alzheimer's - attributing the brain deterioration entirely to plaque formation was later discredited - Fischer's studies were more comprehensive and complete than Alzheimer's. (They were discredited because neither researcher realized that these brain abnormalities were also present in older adults who did not have a dementia.) It is believed that antisemitism played a role in Alzheimer being given the credit for first discovering these markers considered characteristic of the disease. Fischer was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941; killed in Theresienstadt Camp. © 2016, D. Anna Campbell
Neuropathologist and fist reasearcher to identify brain abnormalities that Alois Alzheimer received credit for. Dr. Fischer was born in Slany, Czechoslovakia, and attended medical schools in Prague and Strasbourg. Working for the German army. he served as psychiatrist during World War I. It was during this time that he met his wife, Franziska. Like his more famous contemporary, Alois Alzheimer, he concentrated his research on senile dementia. He published his findings in medical journals in 1907, 1910, and 1912. These findings identified and named the plaques, and were more detailed, comprehensive, and precise than those later discovered by Alois Alzheimer. Although both his findings and Alzheimer's - attributing the brain deterioration entirely to plaque formation was later discredited - Fischer's studies were more comprehensive and complete than Alzheimer's. (They were discredited because neither researcher realized that these brain abnormalities were also present in older adults who did not have a dementia.) It is believed that antisemitism played a role in Alzheimer being given the credit for first discovering these markers considered characteristic of the disease. Fischer was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941; killed in Theresienstadt Camp. © 2016, D. Anna Campbell
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