Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 50% of the inmates of U. S. insane asylums are there on account of a deteriorated mental-emotional condition variously called dementia praecox, schizophrenia or split personality. Therefore the presence in Manhattan last week of a young Vienna psychiatrist, who cures such disoriented wits by means of insulin, created great stir among doctors, great hopes among relatives of schizophrenics...
...Called dementia praecox because it strikes most victims between the "precocious" ages of 18 and 35, called schizophrenia because it reveals a split between the emotional and intellectual activities of the victim, the condition is the greatest mystery of psychiatry. The spirit tries to run away from reality. The tortured soul attempts to hide. The victim loses his will power, his ability to concentrate, his memory, bis judgment. Extreme cases become more abject and helpless than sick infants. About 10,000 of the 40,000 schizophrenic cases who develop in the U. S. each year acquire wild, paranoiac ideas...
...break through his subordinate's formidable psychosis, fails because he does not understand it. Eventually, Dumartin's colleague, Dr. Wendt (Tom Kraa), who has more than an inkling of what is wrong, finds a cure which, as simple as the trick which enabled Dumartin's dementia to begin, erases it by removing its motive...
...Dementia praecox (schizophrenia...
...neurologists offered definite recommendations: "1) Our knowledge of human genetics has not the precision nor amplitude which would warrant the sterilization of people who themselves are normal in order to prevent the appearance, in their descendants, of manic-depressive psychosis, dementia praecox, feeblemindedness, epilepsy, criminal conduct or any of the conditions which we have had under consideration...