What Is Dementia Precox?

Abstract. Dementia precox is a psychosis essentially of the period of puberty and adolescence, characterized by a mental deterioration tending to progress, though frequently interrupted by remissions.

Is dementia praecox schizophrenic?

For example, the disorder we know today as schizophrenia was originally called dementia praecox, or early dementia, by Kraepelin (1883), who believed that the brains of individuals who developed schizophrenia had begun to deteriorate prematurely.

Who came up with dementia praecox?

In 1893 and 1896, in his fourth and fifth textbook editions, Emil Kraepelin brought together 3 syndromes to form the first and second of his 2 prequels to dementia praecox (DP), a definitive version of which he would propose in his 1899 sixth textbook edition.