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When the German neurologist Alois Alzheimer first identified Alzheimer's disease as a disorder in 1906, it was considered to be psychological, and the patient was most likely institutionalized after the diagnosis. Nowadays, it is known to be a degenerative neurological disease characterized by a particular set of changes in the brain that, once started, are progressive and irreversible.