Identifier: dementiapraecoxp00krae (find matches)
Title: Dementia praecox and paraphrenia
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Kraepelin, Emil, 1856-1926 Robertson, George M. (George Matthew), b. 1864
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Livingstone
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medullary fibres appear according to the findings ofGoldstein, De Buck and Deroubaix somewhat thinnedespecially in the supraradial network ; Goldstein, Agostini,Gonzales, Moriyasu, Klippel, and Lhermitte describe slightloss of fibres in the tracts and changes in the anterior horncells of the spinal medulla. By some investigators, Obregia,Klippel and Lhermitte, Doutrebente and Marchand changesin the vessels were also found, new formation of vessels,proliferation of vascular cells. As the vessels, however,as a rule, have no share in the morbid process, we have hereprobably to do with chance side-findings caused possibly byage, alcoholism or syphilis. Doutrebente and Marchand sawnumerous nerve-cells in the embryonic stage of development; MORBID ANATOMY 215 Agostini also reports some traces of arrested developmentand residua of childish diseases. Mondio found in six casesanomalies in the convolutions, which he regards as signs ofdegeneration. Schroder from the same point of view describes
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Fisj. ;6. Nerve-cells suii^.uiiw^a lia nuclei. in one case displacement of Purkinje cells and double nuclei,and also syncytial formations in the pyramidal cells of thecerebral cortex. The accompanying figures represent some of the mostimportant findings in dementia praicox. The first two figuresrepresent acute changes. In Fig. 36 a number of nerve-cellsfrom the deep layers of the cortex are reproduced, which aresurrounded as thickly as possible by numerous glia cells 2i6 DEMENTIA PR.^COX recognizable by their dark nuclei, some of which have verymuch enlarged protoplasmic bodies. The distribution ofdecomposition products is represented in Fig. 37, which istaken from the cortex of a stuporous patient who died sud-denly in a seizure. Two glia nuclei (g) are seen, round which ^r

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