X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Bénédict Morel


Bénédict Morel

As Eugène Minkowski succinctly stated, 'An abyss separates Morel's démence précoce from that of Kraepelin.

Dementia praecox

The term démence précoce was used in passing to describe the characteristics of a subset of young mental patients by the French physician Bénédict Augustin Morel in 1852 in the first volume of his Études cliniques.

Morel's ear

Named after Bénédict Morel, a French psychiatrist who regarded it as one of the hereditary "stigmata of degeneration" that allowed medical professions to identify the mentally ill.



see also