This led Kraepelin to name what we now know as schizophrenia, dementia praecox ( the dementia part signifying the irreversible mental decline ).
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Kraepelin devoted very few pages to his speculations about the etiology of his two major insanities, dementia praecox and manic-depressive insanity.
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Compared to the other " Stachyurus praecox " varieties, this variety has thicker branches, longer inflorescences, and larger fruits.
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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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It is impossible to discern whether the condition briefly described by Morel was equivalent to the disorder later called dementia praecox by Pick and Kraepelin.
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Voronoff also speculates that the grafting surgery might be beneficial to people with " dementia praecox ", the mental illness known today as schizophrenia.
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It is possible that male " D . praecox " reach sexual maturity at a smaller size than females of the same species.
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The official diagnosis is dementia praecox, a phrase, for the record, with which doctors had recently described the condition of Williams'sister.
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Dementia praecox disappeared from official psychiatry with the publication of DSM-I, replaced by the Bleuler / Meyer hybridization, " schizophrenic reaction ".
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At that time, very few people were diagnosed with dementia praecox due to the small range of symptoms recognized specifically as signs of this disorder.