[Late-onset schizophrenia].

Objective: To verify clinical observations by the epidemiological method.

Material And Methods: The data of the full investigation of 1781 schizophrenia cases, including 403 patients in the age of 60 and older were used.

Results And Conclusion: A number of characteristics inherent for this group were fully consistent with clinical observations.

[Schizophrenia: age at disease onset].

Objective: Until now the problem of the typical age of schizophrenia onset has been actively discussing in the world literature. Though there are more and more publications, which mention the growth in the number of cases with late-onset and very-late-onset of the disease, a conviction that schizophrenia is the illness of teenagers or young people is still exists. Author aimed to determine a preferable age of the onset of schizophrenia.

[Pantogam in daily psychiatric practice].

Pantogam was used as a corrector of the side-effects of neuroleptic therapy. The adverse effects were assessed psychometrically with several scales. Attention was focused on the unwanted signs (pathological movements of different groups of muscles).

[The results of questionnaire survey in the patients with affective disorders (European study)].

The project "Bipolar Educative Awareness Material (BEAM) included a questioning of 1732 patients with affective disorders from 11 European countries. In the present study, the results obtained in Russia are compared to total ones. Russian patients are featured by higher percentage of women and elderly as well as higher education level.