Kraepelin's Disease

Kraepelin's disease or mental epilepsy (English name dementia praecox) is a mental disorder from the group of schizophrenia, manifested mainly by productive (hallucinatory and delusional) symptoms, which is characterized by the development of dementia, the presence of positive psychopathological symptoms without clear negative phenomena.

According to etiology and pathogenesis, this is a systemic disease of the brain, usually occurring after a traumatic brain injury or specific intoxication. The general picture of the mental state of patients is expressed by a violation of adaptation to the external environment; interpersonal communication disorder and social maladjustment