NOUN
- any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
How To Use dementia praecox In A Sentence
- Bleuler believed, however, that the term dementia praecox was too specific and did not always fit the clinical course, which he believed more variable than originally described. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
- He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France.
- Another important form of classification emerged in 1896 with Emil Kraepelins model of dementia praecox, first used by Morel in 1860 and described as irrecoverable cortical brain disease producing a particular kind of mental enfeeblement in the young. Bedlam
