[Typology of depressions in endogenous psychoses].

The results of a clinico-statistical study of 483 patients with depressive syndromes in the framework of affective and schizoaffective psychoses demonstrated a wide range of depressive conditions. In the absence of specific nosological types of depression there was, however, a certain predilection of the syndromal distribution in the nosological framework, in some clinical, psychopathological features, even in structural similar depressions, depending upon the character of the development of the pathological process and its dynamics.

[Clinical aspects of lithium prevention of endogenous phasic-affective psychoses].

The report deals with the results of a long-term (up to 7 years) therapeuticoprophylactic use of lithium salts in 80 patients with manic-depressive psychosis and attack-like schizophrenia. It was possible to confirm the nosological predictiveness of this method in manic-depressive psychosis. The authors show some indications for the use of lithium in periodical schizophrenia with affective and affective-delusional attacks.