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Kraepelin’s theory

Kraepelin’s theory

the concept of dementia praecox, the disorder now known as schizophrenia, that emphasized the progressive intellectual deterioration (dementia) and the early onset (praecox) of the disorder. [first presented in 1898 by Emil Kraepelin]

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