[bdeaner]

praecox dementia

By the way, your statement betrays a certain ignorance of the diagnostic issue on hand. The issue is one of drug treatment of PSYCHOSIS. Schizophrenia is only one of several mental disorders that include psychosis as a symptom. Bipolar Disorder, in its manic phase, often has psychotic features. There is a psychotic depression. There is psychosis secondary to drug use, including stimulants such as Ritalin and Adderal, not to mention anti-psychotic medication. Psychosis can be induced by a medical condition, such as a head injury or brain damage. There is brief psychotic episodes. Etc, etc.

The only disorder that has any historical link with the VERY outdated concept of dementia praecox is schizophrenia, and that description, from Kraplein, is of a particular kind of psychosis that is hebephrenic and progressively degenerative in nature -- unlike many other manifestations of symptoms in individuals diagnosed with schizoprenia, per DSM-IV criteria.

Do you claim to have any training in psychiatric diagnosis?

The problem we are faced with is that physicians seem to be FAR too quick to hand out the anti-psychotic medication, when a condition might be transiant, as in a brief psychotic episode, but dependency on anti-psychotics drugs can then set in, and within a few months, for those sensitive to its effects, it can do a lot of damage in a short amount of time -- the incidence of akithesia alone is remarkably high with the atypicals. And for what? Because someone had a brief psychotic break? That's shameful.

[gusopol3]

The only disorder that has any historical link with the VERY outdated concept of dementia praecox is schizophrenia, and that description, from Kraplein, is of a particular kind of psychosis that is hebephrenic and progressively degenerative in nature

just amazing the level of arrogance and deceit that you attempt here. To quote one of many possible citations, Buchsbaum and Hazlett in Neurobiology of Mental Illness , ed. Charney and Nestler, Oxford ,2004, p.855-56:"Dementia praecox, an early name for schizophrenia and the gradual appearance of deficits in executive function and memory with progressive impairment in social or occupational function, certainly characterizes many patients with schizophrenia." That is, the concept of Dementia praecox is in no regard limited in the way you describe. You've read DSM , that's the extent of your knowledge.