RESUMEN
The causes of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mental breakdown in early 1889 and of the subsequent slow decay to end-stage dementia along ten years will possibly remain open to debate. The diagnosis of syphilitic dementia paralytica, based only on medical anamnesis and physical examination, was considered indisputable by Otto Binswanger. On the other hand, taking into account recently described diseases, selectively collected evidence lend some support to alternative hypotheses: basal forebrain meningioma, CADASIL, MELAS and frontotemporal dementia.
As causas da crise neuropsiquiátrica de Friedrich Nietzsche no início de 1889 e de sua lenta deterioração em demência avançada ao longo de 10 anos provavelmente permanecerão uma questão em aberto. O diagnóstico da época, demência paralítica sifilítica, foi considerado por Otto Binswanger como indiscutível. Por outro lado, em vista de novas doenças descritas, evidências seletivamente ordenadas sugerem diversas hipóteses alternativas propostas ao longo das últimas décadas, como meningioma frontal, CADASIL, MELAS e demência frontotemporal.
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Historia del Siglo XIX , Humanos , Personajes , Neurosífilis/historia , Filosofía/historia , AlemaniaRESUMEN
The causes of Friedrich Nietzsche's mental breakdown in early 1889 and of the subsequent slow decay to end-stage dementia along ten years will possibly remain open to debate. The diagnosis of syphilitic dementia paralytica, based only on medical anamnesis and physical examination, was considered indisputable by Otto Binswanger. On the other hand, taking into account recently described diseases, selectively collected evidence lend some support to alternative hypotheses: basal forebrain meningioma, CADASIL, MELAS and frontotemporal dementia.