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Gaetano Perusini
Italian physician, 1879-1915.
Associated eponyms:
Alzheimer's disease
The most common cause of presenile dementia, Alzheimer’s disease is a chronic, progressive organic, mental disease due to atrophy of the frontal and occipital lobes.
Biography:
Gaetano Perusini was a pupil and co-woerker of Alzheimer in the anatomical laboratory and the psychiatric clinic in Munich under Alzheimer, and was assistant physician in a mental asylum in Rome.
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