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.
Dementia | dementia | Dementia pugilistica | ''Thymus praecox'' near Seyðisfjörður | Sundowning (dementia) | Dementia with Lewy bodies | dementia with Lewy bodies | dementia pugilistica |
Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler described patients who exhibited signs of avoidant personality disorder in his 1911 work Dementia Praecox: Or the Group of Schizophrenias.
Noll R,(2011) American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press.
Noll's most recent book, American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox, was published by Harvard University Press in October 2011.