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Hans Förstl, MD

Arch Neurol. 1992;49(2):187-188.

Abstract
• Know Thyself or Journal of Empirical Psychology (Gnothi Sauton oder Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde), 1783-1793, was the first of its kind—concentrating on nervous and mental disturbances and marking the beginning of periodical neuropsychiatric publications. The editor, Karl Philipp Moritz, and the contributors, many of them lay people, were particularly interested in disturbances of language and consciousness. Descriptions of epilepsy, Sydenham's chorea, jargon aphasia, and dementia are briefly summarized. The case material from the Journal was soon translated and integrated in later work. The Journal itself and its "empirical" approach became a model for publications that followed.

Author Affiliations
From the Section of Old Age, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication August 28, 1991.

Reprint requests to Section of Old Age, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom (Dr Förstl).

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