New research has found a link between dementia and schizophrenia that has confirmed a theory that is more than 120 years old and was previously refuted by the scientific community.
‘Dementia praecox’ is a term that was popularized in 1899 by Emil Kraepelin, founder of the psychiatric hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (LMU) and the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry (MPI).
The term was used to define young adults who progressively disengage from society and end up in a permanent, dementia-like state.
