Alois Alzheimer with his co-workers at the Nervenklinik (Psychiatric Clinic), University of Munich, 1909-1910. Alzheimer was head of the neuroanatomic laboratory. Back row, left to right: Fritz Lotmar, unknown, Stefan Rosental, Allers, unknown, Alois Alzheimer, Nicolas Achucarro, Friedrich Heinrich Lewy. Front row, left to right: Adele Grombach, Ugo Cerletti, unknown, Francesco Binfiglio, Gaetano Perusini. In 1906, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915) made a complete clinical and pathological description of presenile dementia, which came to be known as Alzheimer's disease, a progressive condition in which nerve cells in the brain degenerate.