Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
We find similar gradual transitions between dementiapræcox and other psychoses.
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Well-marked dementiapræcox, but of recent origin and but slight deterioration.
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Patient is a well-marked case of dementiapræcox but only moderately deteriorated; works well at the hospital.
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Thus the test records of dementiapræcox depart from the normal not sharply but by a gradual shading off.
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It must be noted that not infrequently cases of dementiapræcox give test records that cannot be distinguished from normal.
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In dementiapræcox, some paranoic conditions, manic-depressiveinsanity, general paresis, and epileptic dementia the test reveals some characteristic, though not pathognomonic, associational tendencies.
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The question remains open whether the case should be regarded as defective or as belonging to the dementiapraecox group.
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"James and Julia's son, Paul Folger, suffered from what they called dementiapraecox."
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In some mental diseases the central disturbance is in the will, as Kraepelin postulates in the disease known as DementiaPraecox.
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Such a case is usually diagnosed as a chronic manic or a dementiapraecox, according to the taste of the examiner.
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According to some psychiatrists this kind of training breeds the mental disease known as DementiaPraecox, but I seriously doubt it.
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And all gradations from pure paranoia to dementiapraecox seem to have corresponding losses in the sense of reality as embodied in delusions.
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108 cases of dementiapræcox.
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If we are to regard it as a psychosis then we expect it to show other reactions, just as dementiapraecox shows manic depressive symptoms.
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What would nowadays be diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia was, on the cusp of the 20th century, believed to be dementiapraecox, or premature mental decline.