Dinitrophenol in Dementia PraeCox

Research in Dementia Praecox

This is a book by an American author, Professor N. C. D. Lewis, of Columbia University. It is of a quite unusual kind and is the result of the author's attempt to collect the findings of research work done into the condition during the last fifteen years. Its publication in America was largely made possible by the beneficience of the Scottish Rite Masons. In the prefact it is suggested that it ...

Dementia Praecox. A Psychological Study

The Psychology of Dementia Praecox

The Psychology of Dementia Praecox. By Dr. C. G. Jung. Translated by Frederic^ Peterson, M.D., and A. A. Brill, Ph.B., M.D. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series, No. 3, New York, 1909. Pp. xx + 153. The majority of existing treatises on dementia praecox present, in reality, little more than collections of accurate clinical pictures of the disease. Their aim is to establish a clearer and ...

Galantamine-memantine combination effective in dementia: Translate to dementia praecox?

Cholinergic and glutamatergic systems, alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α-7nAChR) and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor are strongly implicated with cognitive impairments in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Donepezil, a frequently used drug in the treatment of AD, is only an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (AChEI), whereas galantamine is an AChEI and a positive allosteric modulator of the α...

Classifying differences: the dementia praecox and schizophrenia categories used by Brazilian psychiatrists in the 1920s

This article analyzes how the Brazilian psychiatrists Henrique Roxo and Murillo de Campos understood and differentiated between the diagnostic categories dementia praecox and schizophrenia at the end of the 1920s in scientific articles published in the principal psychiatric journal of the time. We note how the aforementioned psychiatrists incorporated the European knowledge that created these d...