Human genetics as an approach to the classification of mental diseases

If we try to arrange the many patterns of mental disease as regards the underlying heredological trends it is possible to develop a system disposed as a "natural series". In our tentative one, which combines eugenic and dynamic criteria chiefly, we tried to assemble 24 separate clinical co...

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Main Author: Aníbal Silveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 1952-03-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1952000100002&lng=en&tlng=en
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description If we try to arrange the many patterns of mental disease as regards the underlying heredological trends it is possible to develop a system disposed as a "natural series". In our tentative one, which combines eugenic and dynamic criteria chiefly, we tried to assemble 24 separate clinical conditions into 5 major groups: I - Psychoses with toxi-infectious diseases (4 entries); II - Psychoses with accidental intoxications (2 entries) ; III - Constitutional endogenous psychoses (7 entries); IV - Marginal endogenous states (7 entries); V - Defective states by local or abiotrophic brain lesions (4 entries). Among the conditions listed under IV are Kleist's marginal or "degenerative" psychoses, which are frequent indeed in psychiatric practice, so to require their consideration.
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spelling doaj-art-19d993d550e44e12a5e2a14b3f2c091a2025-08-20T02:01:15ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42271952-03-01101414610.1590/S0004-282X1952000100002S0004-282X1952000100002Human genetics as an approach to the classification of mental diseasesAníbal Silveira0Juqueri State HospitalIf we try to arrange the many patterns of mental disease as regards the underlying heredological trends it is possible to develop a system disposed as a "natural series". In our tentative one, which combines eugenic and dynamic criteria chiefly, we tried to assemble 24 separate clinical conditions into 5 major groups: I - Psychoses with toxi-infectious diseases (4 entries); II - Psychoses with accidental intoxications (2 entries) ; III - Constitutional endogenous psychoses (7 entries); IV - Marginal endogenous states (7 entries); V - Defective states by local or abiotrophic brain lesions (4 entries). Among the conditions listed under IV are Kleist's marginal or "degenerative" psychoses, which are frequent indeed in psychiatric practice, so to require their consideration.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1952000100002&lng=en&tlng=en
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Human genetics as an approach to the classification of mental diseases
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