Historical Events tagged with "psychological disorders"
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Health & Medicine
Kraepelin Names Alzheimer's Disease
July 15th, 1910 114 years ago
Emil Kraepelin, a prominent psychiatrist, published 'Clinical Psychiatry' where he named Alzheimer's disease in honor of his colleague Alois Alzheimer. This publication laid the groundwork for understanding and categorizing various mental disorders, including dementia. Through this work, Kraepelin recognized the crucial connection between clinical observation and the classification of diseases, significantly impacting psychiatry.
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