The name of the Alzheimer’s disease originated from a German scientist and neurologist named Alois Alzheimer who observed the unusual findings in the brain of a 51-year-old woman. A brain autopsy identified the plaques and tangles that we today refer to as Alzheimer’s. The women died after suffering memory loss, disorientation and paranoia. A few years later, his colleague named Emil Kraepelin structured Alzheimer’s research and referred it as Alzheimer’s disease, a particular type of dementia that causes memory loss and confusion. Even today there is no treatment of alzheimer’s though there are some medications that temporarily improve symptoms.