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Why the Story of Solomon Carter Fuller Matters to BU—and for Black History Month
When you hear the name Alois Alzheimer, you don’t ever wonder who he was or what he discovered or invented. His name tells you all you need to know.
How about when you hear the name Solomon Carter Fuller? Not quite the same reaction.
It’s time for a little Boston University history lesson in honor of Black History Month, and in further recognition of the advancement of research about Alzheimer’s disease. As the world’s population ages, the number of people suffering from dementia—50 million in 2020—is expected to nearly double every 20 years.
- Solomon Carter Fuller (CAMED 1897) was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, in 1872. When he was 17, he moved to the United States to attend college at Livingstone College in North Carolina, and he went on to study medicine at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn.
- In the mid 1890s, he came to Boston to attend what was then the Boston University
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Solomon Carter Fuller
Liberian neurologist and psychiatrist
Solomon Carter Fuller (August 11, 1872 – January 16, 1953) was a pioneering Liberianneurologist, psychiatrist, pathologist, and professor.[2][3] Born in Monrovia, Liberia, he completed his college education and medical degree (MD) in the United States. He studied psychiatry in Munich, Germany, then returned to the United States, where he worked for much of his career at Westborough State Hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts.
In 1919, Fuller became part of the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine where he taught pathology.[3] He made significant contributions to the study of Alzheimer's disease during his career.[4] He also had a private practice as a physician, neurologist, and psychiatrist.
Early life and education
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THE ORIGINS OF OUR SEARCH FOR A CURE
As we pause to contemplate Black History Month, we honor Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, whose contributions to the very beginning of our understanding about the illness that would come to be known as Alzheimer’s disease are momentous. He was there, working with Dr. Alois Alzheimer, when the potential role of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles was first recognized—creating a separate line of understanding from arteriosclerosis, which was the assumed cause at that time for presenile dementia.
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