[Somatic pathology in elderly and senile persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's type dementia.].

In order to study the prevalence of chronic somatic age-associated pathology in elderly and senile people suffering from Alzheimer's type dementia with the presentation of the hypothesis of somatopsychic pathogenetic comorbidity observation and treatment, 217 patients were observed, conditionally divided into 2 comparable groups: with a definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (n=73) and with so-called Alzheimer's type dementia (n=144). Distinct differences in the variants of comorbid to the selected types of dementia of somatic pathology were determined, which had a negative impact not only in terms of the occurrence of cognitive disorders, but also in the future, during the formation of the most severe variants of dementia. In cases of Alzheimer's disease, pathological processes in the large intestine turned out to be leading, with Alzheimer's type dementia - diseases of the circulatory system and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Mental disorders as an indication for surgical treatment of drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.

This study recruited 82 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE): 41 men and 41 women, who underwent an open epilepsy surgery to remove the epileptic focus from 1963 to 1970. The patients before surgery were divided into two groups: group I included 49 patients with minor mental disorders and group II included 33 patients with major mental disorders. Features of mental disorders in patients with monotemporal lobe epilepsy were identified.