Kraepelin
Americannoun
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When German psychiatrists Alois Alzheimer and Emil Kraepelin classified it as a disease in the early 20th century, they focused on younger patients.
From The Guardian
As inmate populations rose, Emil Kraepelin and other European scientists sought to trace insanity to its biological roots.
From Scientific American
At the same time, Harrington shows, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin began a large-scale, systematic survey to categorize symptoms such as hallucinations or extreme moods.
From Nature
Our own culture’s conception of the varieties of mental illness took shape first from a deck of cards curated by the pioneering German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin over a century ago.
From New York Times
Each of the cards contained an abstract of a patient’s medical history, and by grouping them according to similarities he observed among the cases, Kraepelin delineated for the first time some of the major categories physicians now use to diagnose psychiatric diseases.
From New York Times
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