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Morel is regarded as the father of dementia praecox and the degeneration theory. Both of these ideas helped understand mental illness as it was on the rise in 19th and 20th century France. [16] Morel's degeneration theory gained quick popularity across Europe, which allowed it to shape further scientific developments.
Morel's concept of mental degeneration – in which he believed that intoxication and addiction in one generation of a family would lead to hysteria, epilepsy, sexual perversions, insanity, learning disability and sterility in subsequent generations – is an example of Lamarckian biological thinking, and Morel's medical discussions are ...
Benedict Augustin Morel (1809–1873) Dementia is an ancient term which has been in use since at least the time of Lucretius in 50 BC where it meant "being out of one's mind". [ 7 ] Until the seventeenth century, dementia referred to states of cognitive and behavioural deterioration leading to psychosocial incompetence.
At the end of the 19th century, medicine and psychiatry was largely influenced by Bénédict Morel's degeneration theory.Degeneration was seen as weakening of higher brain regions that would allow more primitive and uncontrollable behavior to emerge. [2]
The incidence of age-related macular degeneration and its associated features increases with age and is low in people <55 years of age. [101] Smoking is the strongest modifiable risk factor. [102] As of 2008, age-related macular degeneration accounts for more than 54% of all vision loss in the white population in the US. [103]
According to the theory of degeneration, a host of individual and social pathologies in a finite network of diseases, disorders and moral habits could be explained by a biologically based affliction. The primary symptoms of the affliction were thought to be a weakening of the vital forces and willpower of its victim.
Morel's ear is the complete or partial absence of the helix or antihelix of the outer ear. Named after Bénédict Morel, a French psychiatrist who regarded it as one of the hereditary "stigmata of degeneration" that allowed medical professions to identify the mentally ill. [1] Marcel Proust referenced Morel's ear in In Search of Lost Time. When ...
Maudsley adhered to degeneration theory and believed that inherited "taints" were exaggerated through succeeding generations . He argued that alcoholism was the most frequent trigger of inherited degeneracy, and that drunkenness in one generation would lead to frenzied need for drink in the second, hypochondria in the third, and idiocy in the ...