Dementia Praecox (Noun)
Meaning
Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The patient's symptoms, including hallucinations and disorganized thinking, were diagnosed as dementia praecox, a condition that would later be reclassified as schizophrenia.
- The term dementia praecox was first used by Eugen Bleuler to describe a group of mental disorders that were distinct from other forms of dementia.
- Dementia praecox was characterized by a decline in cognitive and emotional functioning, often accompanied by a withdrawal from social interactions.
- The patient's family reported that she had been experiencing symptoms of dementia praecox for several years, including paranoid delusions and disorganized speech.
- In the early 20th century, dementia praecox was considered a distinct clinical entity, but it is now recognized as a manifestation of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Catatonic Type Schizophrenia
- Catatonia
- Disorganized Schizophrenia
- Catatonic Schizophrenia
- Acute Schizophrenic Episode
- Borderline Schizophrenia
- Paranoid Schizophrenia
- Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
- Paraphrenic Schizophrenia
- Latent Schizophrenia
- Paranoic Type Schizophrenia
- Reactive Schizophrenia
- Hebephrenia