History of dementia

History of dementia is the past of the word and thing dementia

Ancient Rome change

Publius Terentius Afer (195 -159 BC) used "Dementia", [1][2] M Tulius Cicero (106. January - December, 43. BC) used the word "dementia" [3][4]

In ancient Rome demensum or demensi was a sum paid to slaves. Demens was used frequently synonymously with the words amens, amentia and alienatus mente [5][6][7]

1800's change

From 1835, John Charles Prichard was the first British psychiatrist to describe using the words: senile dementia [8]

Morel first describes as a term "démence précoce" (the words are French: in English précoce is translated as precocious - meaning early in age: young) in his work of 1852 [9][10]

An description of dementia within the vascular system was made by Emil Kraepelin for 1896. [11]

1906 change

By examining by microscope the brain of a dead mental patient who Alois Alzheimer had diagnosed as having senile dementia, although 50 years of age, brain abnormalities were found. The combination of the diagnosis and the brain abnormality became known as Alzheimer's disease after this description by Emil Kraepelin in a 1910 textbook. [12][13][14]

2013 change

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) made by the American Psychiatric Association redefined dementia for diagnostic purposes as "major neurocognitive disorder" [15]

2017 and after change

Dementia is classed as a neurodegenerative syndrome [16] Since the 2017 International Classification of Diseases (ICD) which is known as the ICD-11, dementia is diagnosed as a neurological disorder not a mental and behavioural disorder. [17][18]

References change

  1. p.9 of A. H. Tod, F. D. Longworth 1914 [ passages for unseen translation ], published by Longmans and Green
  2. credo, ut est Dementia

    Terentius; Adelphi
  3. p.34 In: Introduction and Notes to the Fifth Book of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations By Frank Smalley, published by T.W. Durston 1892
  4. dementiā aliquā depravita

    M. Antonium orationes Philippicae
  5. Latin > English The Liddell, Scott, Jones Ancient Greek Lexicon
  6. Latin > English The Liddell, Scott, Jones Ancient Greek Lexicon
  7. Latin > English The Liddell, Scott, Jones Ancient Greek Lexicon
  8. "Senile dementia" In: Institutionalising senile dementia in 19th-century Britain Sociology of Health and Illness Volume 39, Issue 2, February 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12452
  9. M. Morel pp.37, 38, 361 of Études cliniques: traité théorique et pratique des maladies mentales considérées dans leur nature, leur traitement, et dans leur rapport avec la médecine légale des aliénés, Volume 1 Grimblot, 1852
  10. ADITYANJEE, MD, mrcpsych, YEKEEN A. ADERIBIGBE, MD, FWCAP, D. THEODORIDIS, MD and W. VICTOR R. VIEWEG, MD Dementia praecox to schizophrenia:The first 100 years p.438
  11. G C Román A historical review of the concept of vascular dementia: lessons from the past for the future Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 1999 Oct-Dec:13 Suppl 3:S4-8. doi: 10.1097/00002093-199912001-00002.
  12. Hanns Hippius, MD, Gabriele Neundörfer, MD The discovery of Alzheimer's disease Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2003 Mar; 5(1): 101–108. doi: 10.31887/DCNS.2003.5.1/hhippius
  13. Jesse F. Ballenger, PhD, MA Framing Confusion: Dementia, Society, and History AMA Journal of Ethics
  14. MARTHA HOLSTEIN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND SENILE DEMENTIA, 1885-l 920: An Interpretive History of Disease Negotiation JOURNAL OF AGING STUDIES 1997, Volume 11, Number 1
  15. Diagnostic criteria for dementia Dementia Australia
  16. Alessandro Bosco, Justine Schneider, Donna Maria Coleston-Shields, Paul Higgs, Martin Orrell The social construction of dementia: Systematic review and metacognitive model of enculturation Maturitas Volume 120, February 2019
  17. Florian Seemüller ICD-11 and mental disorders: important changes, controversies, and future directions BMC Psychiatry 23, 698 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05186-w
  18. Indian J Psychiatry. 2017 Jan-Mar; 59(1): 1–2. doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_66_17 PMCID: PMC5418992 PMID: 28529351 Dementia and the International Classification of Diseases-11 (Beta Version) T. S Sathyanarayana Rao, K. S. Jacob, K. S. Shaji, M. S. V. K Raju, Ajit V. Bhide, G. Prasad Rao, Gautam Saha, and Mukesh Jagiwala ICD-11 and mental disorders: important changes, controversies, and future directions