- Who named the disease after Alzheimer, and when?
History of Psychiatry
The evolution of psychiatric theory and treatment.
- What made the Maudsley Hospital's approach to psychiatric care unusual for Britain in 1923?
- How did Henry Maudsley's bequest shape the hospital's founding philosophy of early treatment and active research?
- What role did the Maudsley Hospital go on to play in training twentieth-century British psychiatry?
- What is dementia paralytica and why was it untreatable before the 1920s?
- What observation led Wagner-Jauregg to try inducing fever in his patients?
- What was prefrontal leucotomy, and why did the scientific verdict on it change so dramatically after 1949?
- What did the Ig Nobel committee actually praise about Hubbard's Dianetics?
- Why would a patient try electroshock as a treatment for snakebite despite it not being part of any formulary?
- What did Beck's patients actually report about their depression that contradicted psychoanalytic theory?