dementia pre|cox

dementia pre|cox
dementia prae|cox or dementia pre|cox «PREE koks»,
= schizophrenia: (Cf.schizophrenia) »

Among the psychoses are schizophrenia, first called dementia praecox (adolescent insanity) by Emil Kraepelin in 1896, and changed by Eugene Bleuler in 1911 to the now more generally accepted term schizophrenia (Marguerite Clark).

[< New Latin dementia praecox precocious insanity]

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