[Mental development of young children in maternal behavior disorders].

To study an interaction between abnormal maternal behaviour and mental development of up to 3 year old children, 26 pregnant women and 26 their children have been studied. The sample included 10 mentally healthy women and 16 women with different psychopathology--mental diseases (11) and personality disorders (5). According to their maternal behaviour, 4 types--reliable, anxious, depriving and neglecting--of mothers were singled out.

[Clinical computed tomographic correlations in children from a group at high risk for schizophrenia].

Computed tomography (CT) was performed in 189 individuals: in 44 children of schizophrenic parents (high risk group, HRG), in 39 parents with schizophrenia or with schizophrenic disturbance, in 56 children with schizophrenia, in 50 children with consequences of early organic damages of central nervous system (mental retardation syndrome and generalized tic syndrome). The frequency of CT changes was equal in the mentioned groups but their character was quite different. The widening of brain's liquor system (89.

[Clinico-psychopathological aspects of borderline mental disorders in infancy].

The authors summarize the data obtained during a comprehensive examination of 200 children of the first year of life with borderline mental disorders. Abnormalities of vegetative and instinctive regulation, psychomotor and affective disorders which are, as a rule, of the borderline nature, occupy the leading position in the structure of the above-indicated disorders. The latter ones are associated frequently enough with different types of development retardation and neurological deviations from normal.

[Mental disorders and the characteristics of development of young children (up to 3 years of age) with a high risk of schizophrenia].

Prospective clinico-psychopathological investigation of 50 young children born to schizophrenic parents revealed that 83% of the children had a common feature: dissociation of mental development that could be termed as a "Schizotypal diathesis" (SD). SD has 3 major course patterns: (1), regredient; (2), stable; (3), progredient. Psychopathologic signs are characteristic for only the 3rd type of SD that is indicative of the schizophrenic character of this dysontogeny.