What Is Early Onset Dementia?

Early-onset dementia is a mental illness, the English name is dementia praecox.

Early-onset dementia

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Early-onset dementia is a mental illness, the English name is dementia praecox.

The English name of early-onset dementia is dementia praecox, which refers to psychopathological terms.

Kraepelin borrowed Morel's term to refer to a group of early-onset mental illnesses that can cause defects. This is not the same as an emotional psychiatric disorder that may be relieved or cured. It is a transitional diagnosis term for schizophrenia. Since the middle of the 19th century, European psychiatrists have regarded the different symptoms of the disease as independent diseases.

For example, Morel in France suggests that cases of mental decline in young people without external causes are called early-onset dementia, and Kahlbaum in Germany describes a mental illness with special mental disorders and muscle tension in the whole body, called tension. Hecker refers to cases of adolescents with ridiculous and stupid behaviors, called adolescent dementia, and points out that it is more common in young people and often results in decline.

In 1896, on the basis of long-term clinical observation research, Klebelin in Germany believed that the above different descriptions were not independent diseases, but different types of the same disease. This disease mostly occurs in young people, and eventually develops into decline. Therefore, the above type is named early-onset dementia, and it is described for the first time as a disease unit. Later, Switzerland Bleuler named the disease schizophrenia. See the entry for schizophrenia for specific manifestations.