The characteristics of the development and course of somatization mental disorders in older persons
Melik-Pashaian, M.A.; Sukiasian, S.G.
Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 93(2): 28-31
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 1997-7298 PMID: 8048300 Document Number: 407896
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.