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- The first antidepressant, Iproniazid, was originally developed in the 1950s as a treatment for tuberculosis.
- Before the DSM, the first official attempt to gather mental health statistics in the U.S. was the 1840 Census, which recorded only a single category: “idiocy/insanity.
- While Reil coined “Psychiatry,” the term “Psychotherapy” was first used by Daniel Hack Tuke in 1872 in his book Illustrations of the Influence of the Mind upon the Body.
- The “Othello Syndrome”: This is a type of delusional jealousy where a person is preoccupied with the unfounded belief that their spouse is being unfaithful. It is named after the protagonist in Shakespeare’s play Othello.
- In 1949, António Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of the prefrontal leucotomy (lobotomy).
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