[Cognitive impairment and social functioning in organic personality disorder due to epilepsy].

Objective: To develop criteria for the diagnosis of cognitive impairment (CI) and to determine the degree of social functioning in organic personality disorder due to epilepsy.

Material And Methods: One hundred and twenty-six patients with epilepsy, aged 18 to 65 years, with disease duration of 11 to 20 years, were examined. The main research method is clinical-psychopathological.

[Dysphoric disorders in epilepsy].

Objective: to determine the differentiated clinical variants of dysphoric disorders in epilepsy based on their syndromal patterns, etiopathogenetic and dynamic characteristics.

Material And Methods: Eighty men (mean age 32.7 years, illness duration from 11 to 20 years) were examined using clinical/psychopathological methods.

[Negative mental disorders in epilepsy].

Objective. To search for clinical features of negative mental disorders in epilepsy. Material and methods.

[Chronic schizophrenia-like psychoses in epilepsy].

Clinical peculiarities of interictal chronic epileptic psychoses were studied in 58 patients. The authors suggested a systematic of schizophrenia-like psychoses in epilepsy. Hallucinoses, paranoid, depressive, manic and catatonic psychotic states were described.

[The clinical and morphological features of the course of tuberculosis in HIV infection].

The development of an acutely progressing process of varying extent to the point of total damage to both lungs is typical of a patient with tuberculosis concurrent with HIV infection due to progressive immunodeficiency. There is an apparent need for dividing patients with comorbidity into 2 groups: (1) HIV/TB, in patients HIV infection is a primary disease; (2) TB/HIV, in whom tuberculosis is accordingly primary. These groups differ in clinical manifestations, forms of tuberculosis, and pathomorphological changes.