1908 BLEULER, Paul Eugen (1857 – 1939)

Die Prognose der Dementia praecox (Schizophreniegruppe).

At the annual meeting of the Deutschen Verein für Psychiatrie in Berlin on the 24th and 25th of April, 1908 Bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia, by which he denoted a group of psychotic reactions rather than one…

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1911 BLEULER, Paul Eugen (1857 – 1939)

Dementia praecox Oder die Gruppe der Schizophrenien.

Bleuler introduced the concept of schizophrenia. He showed that Kraepelin’s “dementia praecox” (No. 4952) should include all the schizophrenic disorders. Translated into English by Joseph Zinkin as Dementia praecox or…

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1934 SAKEL, Manfred Joshua (1900 – 1957)

Schizophreniebehandlung mittels Insulin-Hypoglykämie sowie hypoglykämischer Schocks.

Insulin shock therapy of schizophrenia. Sakel wrote several subsequent papers on this subject in the same journal. English version in Amer. J. Psychiat., 1937, 93, 829-41.

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1935 MEDUNA, Ladislas Joseph (1896 – 1964)

Versuche über die biologische Beeinflussung des Ablaufes der Schizophrenic. 1. Campher-und Cardiazolkrämpfe.

Cardiazol (metrazol) convulsion therapy of schizophrenia was introduced by Meduna in 1934.

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