PMID: 11637100Jan 1, 1997Paper

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Physis; rivista internazionale di storia della scienza
J M Perez Trullen

Abstract

Since ancient times, the study of cognitive deterioration has been a medical and philosophical constant. Unitl the 18th century, this study took place alongside that of other mental illnesses, for which reason it could not be separated, except in certain special cases, from other processes that were genuinely psychiatric. This century has witnessed a Mental Revolution as a consequence of the divorce between neuropsychiatry on the one hand, and philosophy and religious ideas on the other, of the spread of the ideas of Cullen, Chiarugi and Pinel, the emergence of the Enlightenment and Vitalism. At the end of the 19th century there were three anatomoclinical and etiopathogenic schools of thought regarding dementia in the senile period (presbyophrenic vascular and senile dementia). Alzheimer's description of the illness which now bears his name marked a break with the earlier schools of thought and began a controversy in the different neurological schools which lasted until the second half of the twentieth century, with the publication of cases similar to that of Alzheimer (Bonfiglio, 1908; Sarteschi, 1909; Perusini, 1910) and, in particular, the dissemination of the case that came about when Kraepelin named the phenomenon Alzheime...Continue Reading

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