The Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test: adaptation into Russian and a new digital "RAVLT World".

The Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) is a classic test used to assess episodic verbal memory in research and clinical practice. We aimed to adapt the RAVLT materials into Russian, provide performance norms across the adult lifespan for the Russian adaptation, and develop a mobile application for automated RAVLT administration across languages. We created three psycholinguistically matched alternative versions of the RAVLT materials in Russian and incorporated them into a new tablet application.

Are subjective language complaints in memory clinic patients informative?

To diagnose mild cognitive impairment, it is crucial to understand whether subjective cognitive complaints reflect objective cognitive deficits. This question has mostly been investigated in the memory domain, with mixed results. Our study was one of the first to address it for language.

[Remissions in affective disorders: epidemiology, psychopathology, clinical and social prognosis, treatment].

Objective: Although there is some evidence on heterogeneity of remissions in affective disorders (partial and full), many aspects of their comparative epidemiology, psychopathology, comorbidity and treatment are still unclear. According to our hypothesis, partial/symptomatic and full/syndromal remissions are not just consecutive stages of disease with spontaneous or treatment related interchange, but independent clinical entities with different essence. The distinction reflects a predominant pattern of disease development, based on interaction of two comorbid axes -- recurrent depression and personality disorder (PD).

[The primary screening of patients with autonomic disorders in outpatient clinics in Russia (START1) using the Russian version of The Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ)].

Objective: To develop an effective diagnostic algorithm for detection of a mental component in the state of patients diagnosed with autonomic nervous system disorder.

Material And Methods: In the frames of START1 epidemiological study, we examined 6633 patients with autonomic nervous system disorders (ICD-10 G.90.

[The problem of remission in schizophrenia: clinical and epidemiological study].

Remission has been considered as a stage in the development of endogenous process taking into account a type of disease course (continuous, episodic-progressive, slow-progressive, number of psychotic episodes) and as an independent clinical presentation differentiated by syndrome structure and stability level. Remissions have been assessed by predominance of positive (symptom remissions) or negative (syndrome remissions) disorders. Two hundreds and thirty-eight patients with schizophrenia, aged 42,4+/-11,2 years, from an out-patient clinic have been studied at the stage of remission.