involutive depression

  • 1involutif — involutif, ive [ ɛ̃vɔlytif, iv ] adj. • 1798; du lat. involutus; cf. involuté 1 ♦ Bot. Involuté. 2 ♦ (1931) Math. Qui se rapporte à une involution. 3 ♦ Méd. Dépression, lésion involutive. ⇒ involution (3o). ● involutif, involutive adjectif ( …

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  • 2Wernicke–Kleist–Leonhard Pathway —    (from 1900)    The central theme in this pathway is classifying psychotic illness not on the basis of outcome, as Kraepelin did, but on the basis of hypothetical underlying neurological impairment or common family history. The pathway had the… …

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