[A psychovegetative symptom complex in the structure of didactogenic depression].

Aim: To study clinical characteristics of didactogenic depression.

Material And Methods: Eighty elementary and middle school students with psychogenic didactogenic depression were studied.

Results And Conclusion: The following variants of didactogenic depression were described: timid, with «intellectual collapse», behavioral disturbances and with psychosomatic masking.

[Somatopsychic synergism as a variant of masked depression in children and adolescents].

Aim: To analyze a variant of a combination of psychopathological (subdepressive) state with inflammatory diseases of non-specific infectious origin.

Material And Methods: The paper was based on the study of 45 patients, aged from 12 to 19 years, examined using psychopathological and follow-up methods. A detailed somatic examination was performed as well.

[The problems of diagnosis and correction of autism in children (an example of Asperger's syndrome)].

Based on the analysis of literature and own clinical experience, we discuss diagnostic issues of early autistic disorders in children. Main differential-diagnostic signs that permit to differentiate mild forms of autism in childhood diagnosed as Asperger's syndrome from childhood schizophrenia, residual organic CNS damage, circular affective disorders are described. Cases of Asperger's syndrome followed up for many years and recommendations for social and psychological adaptation of children and adolescents with Asperger's syndrome in different age periods are presented.

[Mental pathology in general pediatric practice: a problem of psychovegetative diathesis].

An examination of patients of a pediatric inpatient clinic revealed a variety of psychopathological disorders concomitant to functional autonomic/somatic pathology in children and adolescents as well as the variants of personality deviations and features of the patient's family. Based on this study, we suggest a concept of psychoautonomic diathesis and describe features of its symptoms and course as well as its relation to psychopathological diathesis. Main problems that should be solved to treat effectively functional autonomic/somatic disorders in the frames of psychoautonomic syndrome are presented.

[Issues in mental health services for children and adolescents].

Existing system of psychiatric care for children and adolescents is in need of basic reorganization. The authors propose: 1) reestablishment of the speciality of children's and adolescent psychiatrist, a specialist in children's and adolescent narcology, a psychiatrist of early child's age and a pediatric medical psychologist; 2) carrying out the reform of child mental care equal in rights with general psychiatry; 3) preservation and widening of both specialized inpatient and outpatient clinics in general system of child's mental care; 4) legislative and public rehabilitation of children's psychiatry, which suffered considerably from antipsychiatric campaign; 5) professionally organized systematic elevation of psychohygienic, psychiatric and psychotherapeutic knowledges of allied medical and other specialists as well as of parents and of all population too; 6) integration and interaction of govermental services concerning mental health of children and adolescent; 7) organization of regional psychoprophylaxic interdisciplinary centers for children and adolescent.