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S G Sukiasian
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[Status and problems of mental health services in Armenia].
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[General diagnostic center as a indicator of the problems of psychiatric service in Armenia].
The efforts directed to understanding of the role of genetic factors in both etiology and risk to develop Alzheimer's disease (AD) become more active. The results of such investigations should be used in genetic counseling with a caution. This counseling should be individual for each family. In respect to molecular genetic testing (and to some extent to diagnostic testing) we can't now do this work in most cases with sufficient accuracy, taking into consideration social, juridical, psychological, ethic and moral potential significance of such information. However, the data accumulated now about the role of a genetic factor in AD allow to perform a genetic assessment in certain cases by geneticists and the clinicians in specialized AD clinics.
[The characteristics of mental disorders in older persons who were earthquake victims].
To investigate mental disorders in elderly patients, victims to the earthquake, 30 patients aged 50 to 68 years were examined. Somatic complaints played the leading part in the disease clinical picture. The basic group comprised 14 patients, victims to the earthquake, and the control group was made up of 16 patients with analogous disorders but they had not been exposed to the earthquake. The disease lasted 6 and more months. It has been shown that the basic group patients seen over time manifest depressive forms of reaction to the extreme situation whereas in the control group patients, somatic disorders turned out dominant.
[The characteristics of the development and course of somatization mental disorders in older persons].
As many as 33 patients aged 50 to 74 years with different mental disorders (mild organic syndrome, slow progredient schizophrenia, cyclothymia, neurotic development of personality) were examined. In all cases somatic-like conditions dominated: vegetative-vascular, somatoform and cenestopathic disorders. They formed as the reaction, phases and development of personality.
[Protracted reactive states in the general hospital: the clinico-psychopathological aspects].
A study was made of earthquake-induced mental disorders which did not lead to the patients' admission to psychiatric hospitals. 40 patients were examined at the general somatic hospital 6-7 months after the earthquake. The signs of mental disorders of the neurotic and affective level were revealed in 70% of the patients with lingering reactive conditions. They manifested in asthenic, depressive hypochondriac and conversion syndromes. All the cases were characterized by asthenic disorders and somatized nature of the disorders.
[Vascular dementia: clinico-psychopathological studies ( review of the literature)].
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[Clinico-tomographic study of atherosclerotic dementia].
On the basis of the results obtained in the examination of 61 patients with atherosclerotic dementia, the author has established general clinical peculiarities of dementia: asthenia, rigidity and the fluctuations in the patients' status. The main types of dementia (general organic, torpid, pseudoparalytic, and amnestic) reflecting the characteristics of cerebrovascular pathology detected by computer tomography of the brain, as well as patterns of the disease (stroke, mixed and stroke-free) have been defined. The main types of structural changes in the patients' brain (foci of lower density, expansion of the CSF spaces and diffuse decrease in the bran density) have been identified. The aggregate of tomographic signs preferable for each type of atherosclerotic dementia and the correlation between the severity of dementia and elicited structural alterations in the brain have been ascertained.
[Computer tomography in psychiatry (review of foreign research in recent years)].
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[The clinical types of somatization mental disorders in elderly people].
A study is presented of 33 patients suffering of borderline neuropsychic disorders of neurotic and affective levels with somatized course. One should distinguish in these patients mental disorders per se (asthenia, depression and hypochondria) and different functional-somatic, vegetative-vascular and senestopathic disorders and their combinations. Somatized disorders characteristic of this age group were singled out: cutaneous-muscular, abdominal, cerebral and cardiovascular. Cutaneous-muscular were most frequent. The problem is discussed of distinguishing peculiar "senestovegetoses" and "senestosomatoses" in the borders of somatized depressive states.