Dementia praecox (a `premature dementia` or `precocious madness`) refers to a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood. It is a term first used in 1891 in this Latin form by Arnold Pick (1851–1924), a professor of psychiatry at the German... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_praecox
Type: Term Definitions: 1. any one of the group of psychotic disorders known as the schizophrenias; formerly used to describe schizophrenia as a single entity. Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=23508