# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heiko-braak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:40:31.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heiko-braak"
name: "Heiko Braak"
slug: "heiko-braak"
description: "Heiko Braak is a German anatomist at the Clinical Neuroanatomy Section, Department of Neurology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Ulm, Germany. He has received awards for his work on Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson’s disease. Braak and his colleagues described disease progression in terms of six different stages, each involving abnormal pathology in particular neurological structures. The type and severity of symptoms is correlated to progression through the Braak stages."
tagline: "German anatomist and pathologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Verleihung_Gr._Bundesverdienstkreuz_Prof._Braak.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.59
  momentum:             1.730769230769231
  historical:           6.149929333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Heiko Braak"
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    title: "هيكو براك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiko_Braak"
    title: "Heiko Braak"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiko_Braak"
    title: "Heiko Braak"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiko_Braak"
    title: "Heiko Braak"
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    title: "Heiko Braak"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiko_Braak"
    title: "Heiko Braak"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86136"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump