Privat-docent Vl. Serbsky. On the question of early dementia. Korsakov Journal of Neuropathology and Psychiatry, 1902, b. 1 and 2

Abstract

In the first part of his article, the author examines the current state of the issue of secondary dementia and proves that a group of psychoses, known under the name “secondary dementia”, should be left in the classification of mental illnesses. The second part is devoted to the analysis of Kräpelin's scholarship on dementia praecox, and the author fundamentally disagrees with many of the provisions of the latter. In the third part, the ethiology, clinical course and recognition of premature dementia are analyzed.

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