In the 1800s physicians studying the disorder we now call schizophrenia used the term dementia praecox because they observed. that the onset of symptoms often occurred before adulthood.
Dementia praecox is a term previously used to describe the condition now known as schizophrenia. A severe mental health disorder, this condition can lead to a warped interpretation of reality, and can significantly impact the person living with it, as well as those closest to them.
Early dementia, by Kraepelin (1883), who believed that the brains of individuals who developed schizophrenia had begun to deteriorate prematurely.
In the late 1920s to the 1930s, dementia praecox replaced by Eugen Bleuler's “schizophrenia
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