[Comparative-age analysis of the socially dangerous acts of late middle-aged mental patients (epidemiologic study)]. / Sravnitel'no-vozrastnoi analiz obshchestvenno opasnykh deistvii psikhicheski bol'nykh pozhilogo vozrasta (épidemiologicheskoe issledovanie).

A comparative epidemiological study covered two groups of patients (n = 4811), aged 55 years and over, diametrically differing with regard to the origin of the disease: (1) schizophrenic patients and patients with mental disturbances in the long-term period of craniocerebral trauma. The authors consider age-specific peculiarities of the rate and structure of antisocial actions, as well as their relationship with some clinical, social, and demographic characteristics of the patients.

[Clinico-psychopathologic characteristics of schizophrenic patients who have performed socially dangerous acts (comparative epidemiological findings)]. / Kliniko-psikhopatologicheskie osobennosti bol'nykh shizofreniei, sovershavshikh obshchestvenno opasnye deistviia (sravnitel'nye épidemiologicheskie dannye)

A statistical analysis of a multifactorial comparative epidemiological study of schizophrenic patients performing and not performing dangerous actions during the period of the disease detected the following: psychological signs of schizophrenia were significantly more frequently seen at different stages of the disease in these patients who performed dangerous acts. There was a certain correlation between specific clinical signs and the age and sex structure, "prepsychotic" personality properties, exogenous influences. It was also possible to demonstrate a certain correlation between the frequency of dangerous acts and clinical conditions.