Psychosomatic disorders in patients with neurocirculatory dystonia and their correction in the day hospital
Tatarintsev, A.N.; Golovin, A.A.; Lipatova, G.A.; Lagustochkina, S.P.
Klinicheskaia Meditsina 70(1): 59-61
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2149 PMID: 1608215 Document Number: 389911
Clinical and psychological tests were used to examine 77, 31 and 32 patients with normotonic, hypertonic and hypotonic neurocirculatory asthenia, respectively. Compared to control subjects, 80% of the patients responded to stress with psychic and social dysadaptation (psychic asthenia, frustration, emotional lability, hypothymism) as well as depression with visceral manifestations: cardialgia, extrasystole, lability of arterial pressure. Chemotherapy, physical and psychological treatment in day hospital produced a response in 89.2% of neurocirculatory asthenia sufferers.