[Problem of adaptation of patients with the syndrome of early childhood autism].

Sixty-seven children with early childhood autism received therapeutic and corrective treatment in a day-time clinic. In 37 cases socialization of children proved possible, and following treatment, they were transferred to specialized, logopedic, and general kindergartens and schools. The authors advocate the advisability of setting up day-time clinics in the framework of childhood psychiatric hospitals and of organization of separate groups for children with early childhood autism in the framework of specialized kindergartens.

[Possibilities of preventing childhood schizophrenia].

The authors consider poorly studied questions of childhood schizophrenia prophylaxis (primary, secondary, individual, and social). At present it is virtually impossible to speak about primary and individual prophylaxis of childhood schizophrenia as an endogenic disease. Preventive measures of reduction of birth rates in groups of patients and individuals at a high risk of the disease should be considered as social prophylaxis aimed at decreasing the prevalence of this disease in the population and complicated by relevant deontological problems.

[Association of schizophrenic and convulsive manifestations in children].

The authors studied 25 preschool children with schizophrenia and schizophreniform states associated with residual-organic damage to the brain who also presented various convulsive manifestations. Patients with this combination were far less numerous than patients with convulsive manifestations without schizophreniform symptoms and with schizophrenia without convulsive manifestations. With regard to paroxysmal phenomena per se, no significant differences were discovered in patients with the schizophreniform symptomatology versus patients with convulsive manifestations without symptoms of schizophrenia.

[Experience with epidemiologic studies of childhood schizophrenia].

An epidemiological study of the adult schizophrenic population (5039) of 3 Moscow districts has shown that 31,3% of the individuals have fallen ill before the age of 18, out of them 23,4% at the age of 12--17 years. The intensity of schizophrenia manifestation in the pubertal period was the highest. A comparison of the sex ratio at the onset of the disease at different periods of childhood and puberty has shown that the younger the boys are, the higher is the morbidity rate among them.