Schizophrenia - History
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Eugene Bleuler's four As.

29 Apr 2009 One hundred years have passed since Eugene Bleuler first coined the term schizophrenia. In that time, a simple mnemonic, the Four As, has come to distort his complex descriptive pathology. However, at no stage did Bleuler give precedence to the Four ... Read more...

Schizophrenia, "just the facts" 4. Clinical features and conceptualization.

25 Mar 2009 Although dementia praecox or schizophrenia has been considered a unique disease entity for the past century, its definitions and boundaries have continued to vary over this period. At any given time, the changing concept of schizophrenia has been ... Read more...

László Meduna's pilot studies with camphor inductions of seizures: the first 11 patients.

27 Feb 2009 In his autobiography, László Meduna described the first session of convulsive therapy using intramuscular camphor as occurring on January 23, 1934 at Royal National Hungarian Institute of Psychiatric and Neurology at Budapest-Lipótmezo in Hungary. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Schizophrenia - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Re: Fifty years ago--schizophrenia: a major public health problem. 30 Jul 2009
• [Classification of psychoses. History, present and future] 2 May 2009
• Eugene Bleuler's four As. 29 Apr 2009
• Schizophrenia: a major public health problem. 1959. 29 Apr 2009
• Schizophrenia, "just the facts" 4. Clinical features and conceptualization. 25 Mar 2009
• Serendipity and science: the double anniversary of a treatment and a journal. 27 Feb 2009
• László Meduna's pilot studies with camphor inductions of seizures: the first 11 patients. 27 Feb 2009
• Sakel versus Meduna: different strokes, different styles of scientific discovery. 27 Feb 2009
• Meta-analysis trends in schizophrenia over three decades. 27 Feb 2009
• The cover. Mayan ruins, Yucatan. 16 Feb 2009
• From psychoanalysis to epidemiology: autobiographical notes. 30 Jan 2009
• The consolidation of neuroleptic therapy: Janssen, the discovery of haloperidol and its introduction into clinical practice. 28 Jan 2009
• Contracting schizophrenia: lessons from the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. 19 Jan 2009
• [The discourse of psychosis in contemporary philosophy] 30 Dec 2008
• [The birth of convulsive therapy] 29 Nov 2008
• The introduction of the concept of dementia praecox into Spain, 1902-19. 29 Nov 2008
• [Richard Arwed Pfeifer. Aesthetics of "schizophrenic art" and brain research] 30 Oct 2008
• Paul Eugen Bleuler and the birth of schizophrenia (1908). 30 Oct 2008
• Being Bleuler: the second century of schizophrenia. 29 Sep 2008
• [Development of antipsychotic drug: new directions] 21 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Schizophrenia'

Definition: A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, HALLUCINATIONS, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.

Descriptor UI: D012559

Alternative terms: Schizophrenia; Schizophrenias; Dementia Praecox; Schizophrenic Disorders; Disorder, Schizophrenic; Disorders, Schizophrenic; Schizophrenic Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.700.750;

Technical Notes: general or unspecified; prefer specifics