Oskar Fischer, University of Texas at San Antonio (IMAGE)

University of Texas at San Antonio

Oskar Fischer, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Oskar Fischer (1876-1942) was a Jewish pioneer in neuroscience who studied dementia at the same time as Alois Alzheimer. In 1907, he published on 12 patients with senile plaques and tangles, the same year that Alzheimer published on one patient with early onset Alzheimer's.

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