ABSTRACT
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.
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Disasters , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , Aged , Armenia , Depression/diagnosis , Depression/psychology , Humans , Infant , Male , Mental Disorders/psychology , Middle Aged , Neurocognitive Disorders/diagnosis , Neurocognitive Disorders/psychology , Neurotic Disorders/diagnosis , Neurotic Disorders/psychology , Psychopathology , Somatoform Disorders/diagnosis , Somatoform Disorders/psychologyABSTRACT
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.
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Somatoform Disorders/etiology , Aged , Chronic Disease , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Mood Disorders/diagnosis , Neurotic Disorders/diagnosis , Psychopathology , Somatoform Disorders/diagnosis , Somatoform Disorders/psychologyABSTRACT
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.
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Somatoform Disorders/classification , Aged , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Psychopathology , Somatoform Disorders/diagnosis , Somatoform Disorders/psychologyABSTRACT
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.
