This state of affairs cannot be regarded as satisfactory, for they are not truly cases of melancholia, paranoia, dementia praecox or any other described affection.
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Manfred Bleuler has been praised as the foremost Bleuler scholar, providing valuable insight into his father's seminal " Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias ".
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It later became clear that dementia praecox did not necessarily lead to mental decline and was thus renamed schizophrenia by Eugen Bleuler to correct Kraepelin's misnomer.
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German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin first distinguished between manic depressive illness and " dementia praecox " ( now known as schizophrenia ) in the late 19th century
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Eventually the two terms fused, so that until 1952 physicians used the terms " dementia praecox " ( precocious dementia ) and " schizophrenia " interchangeably.
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The originatiors of this test, Much and Holzmann of Eppendorf, posited that sera from patients suffering from dementia praecox protected red blood cells from cobra venom hemolysis.
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In the sixth edition of the " Lehrbuch " in 1899 all three of these clinical types are treated as different expressions of one disease, dementia praecox.
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The term " dementia praecox " was first used in 1891 by Arnold Pick ( 1851 1924 ), a professor of psychiatry at Charles University in Prague.
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Furthermore, he argued ( 1907 ) that dementia praecox is associated with child sexual trauma, based on the relationship between hysteria and child sexual trauma demonstrated by Freud.
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Emil Kraepelin first introduced his proposed dichotomy between the endogenous psychoses of manic-depressive illness and dementia praecox during a public lecture in Heidelberg, Germany on 27 November 1898.
