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A Note on the Concept of Dementia Paralytica at the Time of Robert Schumann's Death in 1856

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. Meyer
A. Meyer*
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University of London (From the Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital)
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In a recent paper Slater and Meyer (in press) have pointed out that the nature of Robert Schumann's final psychiatric illness has never been satisfactorily explained. Moebius (1906) diagnosed it as dementia praecox, while Gruhle (1906) favoured an organic disease of the brain, probably paretic dementia. Subsequent opinion has been evenly divided between these two diagnoses but recent writers have inclined more to a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Slater and Meyer, however, on critically re-examining the available evidence, have definitely come down on the side of Gruhle.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 438 , January 1959 , pp. 116 - 123
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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