Martin Roth
Martin Roth · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychiatrist influential in the classification of mental disorders in old age
1917, Budapest, Hungary — 2006, Cambridge, England
Hungary · United Kingdom · University of Cambridge
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Sir Martin Roth was a British psychiatrist, a founding president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, whose research clarified the classification of mental disorders of old age, distinguishing forms of dementia and late-life depression. His work helped establish old-age psychiatry as a discipline. His Jewish family emigrated from Hungary to England; he was Jewish.
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Psychiatrist influential in the classification of mental disorders in old age
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