Footnotes

• ↵* In 1992 and 1997, the histological slides of Alzheimer's original cases were rediscovered and re-examined in Munich. This material was found at the Institute of Neuropathology, Munich. Kohshiro Eujisawa of Tokyo had through Henry deE Webster of the NIH in Bethesda, prompted the rediscovery of Alzheimer's cases. Histological and molecular genetic findings obtained on the tissue sections have been reported (Neurogenetics1997;1:73–80; 1998;1:223–28).