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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mazaeva, N A
• Siriachenko, T M
• Suetina, O A

Titel

The age peculiarities of nonpsychotic forms of psychogenic disorders caused by everyday stressors

Ist Teil von

• Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova, 2004, Vol.104 (6), p.14

Ort / Verlag

Russia (Federation)

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Three groups of patients were examined in the period of 1994-1999: adolescent (aged 15-18 years), middle-aged (25-59 years) and elderly (60 years and older) with non-psychotic mental disorders developing under the influence of everyday stressors. The highest tolerability to stressors was detected in the middle-aged group. The dominating stressors in the groups were: social situations in the adolescences; interfamily conflicts--in the middle-aged patients and a presence of disease--in the elderly. Stressogenic affective disorders occurred most often in all the groups; anxious-phobic states prevailed in adolescents; neurotic pictures with hysteri-form symptoms, converse type--in the middle age and anxious phobic disorders with primary psychoorganic appearances--in the elderly. Risk factors for psychogenic disorders are: male sex, "organic predisposition", accentuation of the personality, "destructive" types of family bringing up in the adolescences; female sex, signs of endogenic diathesis and reactive lability for the middle-aged patients and female sex, aging factor and related changes of personality as well as somatic diseases in the elderly.