ABSTRACT
A dynamic survey was undertaken of mental status of those subjects exposed to ionizing radiation after Chernobyl NPP breakdown (n = 476). The examinees exhibited delayed course (up to 8 years) of psychopathologic disorders with the onset consequent upon working in the alienation zone or evacuation. On instituting some measures to form the pathological mental changes in the subjects described a process or psychopathologic development was noted to occur in 74 (15.5%) and 402 (84.5%) respectively. The psychopathologic disorders detected were arranged in the following classes: psycho-organic, neurotic, chiefly posttraumatic stressor, and psychosomatic ones, the relevant figures being as follows: 14.5% (n = 68), 12.05% (n = 58) and 58.0% (n = 176). A scheme of mental disorders related to the Chernobyl NPP breakdown aftereffects was suggested, which is likely to be amended in the course of further study. A specialized Ukrainian Psychoneurologic Rehabilitation Centre is envisaged, designed to give help to the Ch NPP accident survivors.
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Environmental Exposure/adverse effects , Mental Disorders/classification , Occupational Exposure/adverse effects , Power Plants , Radioactive Hazard Release/psychology , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Mental Disorders/etiology , Mental Disorders/psychology , Middle Aged , Personality Disorders/classification , Personality Disorders/etiology , Personality Disorders/psychology , Psychopathology , UkraineABSTRACT
Results are reported of a study of borderline mental disorders in patients of the orthopedic profile. The author determined mental phenomena forming the internal picture of the disease, function of the vegetative nervous system, syndromological characterization of mental disorders, role of premorbid personality changes and main variants of development of this somatopsychic pathological state.
