Did you know that…..
in the writing of Hippocrates are many references to Mood Disorders ?
He distinguished various form of depression and swing of mood, although he did not make any connection between hypo-manic episodes and depressives periods.
(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)
Nomenclature and Classification are a part of standard psychiatric practice.
They serve as useful index tabs, and are necessary for statistical or administrative purposes.
A Nosology of mental disorders was already in use by the time of Hippocrates and Galen. Nowadays we have two important classification :
1º)- The DSM (Diagnostic an Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association). It goes now for number four.
2º)- The ICD , the International Classifications of Diseases publishes by the World Health Organization. It intended to supply a common basis for interconversion of various other systems. Nowadays it goes for number ten.
A general rule say that a medical classification last about a decade.
(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)
Did you know that…..
the earliest case history of a phobic patient is recorded in one of the Hippocrates books ?
It is in the book 5, chapter LXXXII, named “on Epidemics” writed by Hippocrates in IV B. C.
(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)