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schizophrenia
schizophrenia , group of severe mental disorders characterized by reality distortions resulting in unusual thought patterns and behaviors. Because there is often little or no logical relationship between the thoughts and feelings of a person with schizophrenia, the disorder has often been called "... Read more
bipolar disorder
bipolar disorder formerly manic-depressive disorder or manic-depression, severe mental disorder involving manic episodes that are usually accompanied by episodes of depression . The term "manic-depression" was introduced by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1896. The manic ph... Read more
manic-depressive disorder
MANIC-DEPRESSIVE DISORDER [manic-depressive disorder] or bipolar disorder, severe mental disorder involving manic episodes that are usually accompanied by episodes of depression . The term was introduced by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1896. The manic phase of the disorder ... Read more
psychiatry
psychiatry , branch of medicine that concerns the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, including major depression , schizophrenia , and anxiety . Although the Greeks recognized the significance of emotions in mental disorders, medieval thought emphasized demonic... Read more
Emil Adolph von Behring
Emil Adolph von Behring , 1854-1917, German physician. He worked with Kitasato at Koch's laboratory in Berlin and from 1895 was professor of hygiene at Marburg. A pioneer in serum therapy, following the work of P. P. É. Roux, he demonstrated immunization against diphtheria (1890) and tetanus ... Read more
Emil Du Bois-Reymond
Emil Du Bois-Reymond , 1818-96, German physiologist of French descent. A pupil and successor (after 1858) of Johannes Müller at the Univ. of Berlin, he is known especially for his studies of nerve and muscle action, in which he demonstrated that electrical changes accompany muscle action. ... Read more
Emil Fischer
Emil Fischer , 1852-1919, German organic chemist. He is especially noted for his researches on the structure and synthesis of sugars and of purines and purine base derivatives, e.g., caffeine; for this work he received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His many other valuable discoveries include a ... Read more
purine
purine type of organic base found in the nucleotides and nucleic acids of plant and animal tissue. The German chemist Emil Fischer did much of the basic work on purines and introduced the term into the chemical literature in the early 20th cent. The two major purines of almost universal distrib... Read more
Konrad Emil Bloch
Konrad Emil Bloch 1912-2000, American biochemist, b. Neisse, Germany (now Nysa, Poland). He became a U.S. citizen in 1944. Bloch was educated at Munich and at Columbia (Ph.D., 1938). He taught at Columbia and at the Univ. of Chicago (from 1946) before going to Harvard in 1954; he retired in 1982. H... Read more
Johan Ludwig Emil Dreyer
Johan Ludwig Emil Dreyer , 1852-1926, Danish astronomer, b. Copenhagen, who worked in Great Britain. He was assistant astronomer at the earl of Rosse's observatory, Parsonstown (now Birr), Ireland (1874-78), and at the observatory of the Univ. of Dublin (1878-82) and director (1882-1916) of the obse... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Emil Kraepelin"

Emil Kraepelin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1891) and Münich (1903), where he also directed a clinic. Kraepelin authored nine editions of a textbook which classified mental...disorder ) in 1899, after analyzing thousands of case histories. Kraepelin was concerned only with diagnostic classification, and did... Read more
bipolar disorder
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...usually accompanied by episodes of depression . The term manic-depression was introduced by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1896. The manic phase of the disorder is characterized by an abnormally elevated or irritable mood, grandiosity... Read more
manic-depressive disorder
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...episodes that are usually accompanied by episodes of depression . The term was introduced by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1896. The manic phase of the disorder is characterized by an abnormally elevated or irritable mood, grandiosity... Read more
Wilhelm Max Wundt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the use of scientific methods in psychology, particularly through the use of introspection. The German psychiatrist, Emil Kraepelin , was his student. His works include Elements of Folk Psychology (tr. 1916, repr. 1983), and Introduction to Psychology... Read more
schizophrenia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...at different times. In 1896, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin grouped what were previously considered unrelated mental...essay by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler corrected Kraepelin's theory that the disease was an organic brain deterioration... Read more
psychological disorders
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...analytic discussion of the patient's dreams and memories of childhood? Or is she suffering from what German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin called dementia praecox , the antecedent of today's schizophrenia? Or is she a victim of syphilis , once dubbed... Read more
Schizophrenia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior ...responsiveness, and course of illness in each vary. Detailed descriptions of the illness date back to the nineteenth century. Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) used the term dementia praecox to describe psychiatric states with an early onset and deteriorating course... Read more
psychiatry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...education. Scientists of the period sought underlying causes of mental and nervous disorders. The German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was the first to divide psychosis into the two general classifications of manic-depressive psychosis (see bipolar... Read more
Cyclothymic disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...more than two months at a time. The noted psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin first described the symptoms of cyclothymic disorder in the late nineteenth century. Kraepelin described four types of personality disorders : depressive... Read more
Mental Illness
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...debilitating nervous conditions, including headaches, insomnia, depression, and anxiety. Finally, in 1899, the German doctor Emil Kraepelin, in The Compendium of Psychiatry , offered a synthesis of the major diagnostic categories of the day, which was rapidly... Read more

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Los errores de Alzheimer.(Carta al editor)
Magazine article from: Contenido; 9/1/2002; ; 169 words ; ...Wroclaw, Polonia); el apellido del investigador Emil Kraeplin se escribe Kraepelin; por último, el doctor no murió de...com 1) El nombre del maestro de Alzheimer era Emil Kraepelin, aunque algunos lo citan como Kraeplin o Kraemplin... Read more
Conquering schizophrenia: Switzerland has made many contributions to the growing awareness of schizophrenia. The company Sandoz in Basel discovered the first psychotropic drug, while Zurich's Burgholzli clinic opened new avenues of psychotherapy.
Magazine article from: Swiss News; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...absolutely incurable degenerative illness, by the 'Godfather' of descriptive biological psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), who worked in Munich. Kraepelin ridiculed Freud's attempts to understand schizophrenia in psychoanalytical terms. He simply... Read more
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...psychiatry in Europe, he writes about the famous Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926): Kraepelin's fame rested on his distinction between dementia...brain, on the other (p.67). The truth is that Kraepelin was a firm believer in the somatic origins of... Read more
To the editors.(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 3/22/2008; ; 358 words ; ...Anyone who doubts that there was any overlap between Emil Kraepelin's psychiatry and Freud's should consult Frank Heynick...Disturbances in Dreams: The Pioneering Work of Freud and Kraepelin Updated, published by Wiley in 1993. In discounting... Read more
Max Ernst: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...abnormal psychology at the University of Bonn and was familiar with Freud's writings as well as those of psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin--presented his paintings and collages as psychoanalytically informed aesthetic experiments in self-understanding and... Read more
Mental Disorders Are Not Diseases.
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...material object; hence, it can be diseased only in a metaphorical sense. In his classic, Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin--the founder of modern psychiatry--wrote: The subject of the following course of lectures will be the Science of Psychiatry... Read more
Schizophrenia: living in a nightmare. (mental disorder)
Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication; 10/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...evil spirits. Our knowledge of schizophrenia has grown with our understanding of the brain and personality. In 1896, Emil Kraepelin developed the term dementia praecox to describe several illnesses that had schizophrenic-like symptoms. He thought... Read more
Literatur und Krankheit im Fin-de-siecle (1890-1914): Thomas Mann im europaischen Kontext.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Gesellschaft der Zeit verstanden werden' (p. 96). He shows how neurasthenia was linked to degeneration (Benedict Morel, Emil Kraepelin, Max Nordau) and how this particular diagnosis related to the crisis of bourgeois self-confidence around 1900. Neurasthenia... Read more
Bipolar disorder as cell membrane dysfunction. Progress toward integrative management.
Magazine article from: Alternative Medicine Review; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...melancholia. (1) Its recognition as a single disorder dates to 1921, when the term manic-depressive insanity was coined by Emil Kraepelin, who made significant contributions to classifying the various psychotic disorders. (6) Estimates of the current lifetime... Read more