[Psychological aftereffects of the disaster at the Chernobyl NPS]

Available are the data on the trend in psychoneurological syndromes demonstrable in all the periods of developing acute radiation disease in the victims of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power station. It is shown that the risk of small-dose ionizing radiation may lead to psychological dysadaptation. Psychogenias are outlined as far as their triggering factors and manifestations in members of the emergency teams are concerned.