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Before the turn of the century, the psychiatric literature on childhood psychoses in the United States was meager and essentially anecdotal in nature. Of the five writers mentioned by Leo Kanner in the years before 1900, two are French (Moreau de Tours, 1888; Manheimer, 1899), one German (Emminghaus, 1887), and two English (Irland, 1898; Maudsley, 1867). With the introduction of Kraepelin’s nosologi-cal system, psychiatrists began to show an active interest in classifying various clinical pictures. Soon afterward De Sanctis (1906) in Italy described children with psychotic symptomatology who were not feebleminded and in whom, according to him, dementia praecox was manifested at an earlier age than Kraepelin had suggested. In 1908 Heller reported six cases of progressive dementia in children in whom onset of the disease during the third or fourth year of life had caused rapid regression in behavior, loss of speech, and withdrawal of interest from the environment. Heller had assumed that these were cases of early dementia praecox and as such belonged to the category of functional psychosis. However, later developments showed Heller’s disease to be due to acute and diffuse degeneration of the cerebral cortex.
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Chess, S., Hassibi, M. (1978). Childhood Psychoses. In: Principles and Practice of Child Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2198-7_12
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