any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
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dementia praecox::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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And it was at Worcester that the first person was diagnosed with dementia praecox.
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He graduated in medicine in 1908, with a dissertation on dementia praecox.
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In 1910, Eugen Bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia to replace dementia praecox.
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It was in this book that Kraepelin described dementia praecox, an incurable psychotic disorder.
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Dementia praecox was the vehicle through which American psychiatry reentered general medicine.
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But, while it wasn't around for long, dementia praecox had a significant impact on the field of psychiatry.
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The term dementia praecox was used in 1891 by Arnold Pick in a case report of a psychotic disorder.
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There could have been no modern medical science of American psychiatry in the twentieth century without dementia praecox.
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While there, he was examined by the prominent German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin and diagnosed with the catatonic form of dementia praecox.
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