l prevails in society. It was first isolated from other forms of psychosis such as depression and bi -polar disorder in 1887 by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin. He mistakenly believed that the EFTA_R1_02075017 EFTA02702558 illness only occurred in young people and that it inevitably led to mental deterio

isorders of cognition and affect as a consequence of pathological ageing. Yet similar degenerative factors may be at play behind these conditions. Emil Kraepelin (1919) first recog- nized the similarity of these disorders, describing schizophrenia as a dementia that emerges in young adults (dementia praecox)