[Clinical experience with a self-assessment scale for detecting organic psychological syndromes in cerebrovascular...

Cerebrovascular insufficiency is of great importance from the aspect of social medicine. Using a range of self-assessment conceived for ambulatory use, the authors tried therefore to detect it in an early stage to make prophylactic provisions possible. The range of self-assessment comprises 25 questions pertaining to specific symptoms. The patient indicates the replies on a five-grade verbal and digital scale. In addition to the evaluation of the content, the total value which can be easily calculated indicates the grade of manifested psychosyndrome as the basis for a reduced performance of the brain. The evaluation takes age-dependence into account. In the submitted paper results of a comparative examination are presented. The authors compared subjects with confirmed organic psychosyndrome (psychometry, PEG, CT etc.) with a control group of subjects without reduced brain performance. Both groups differed significantly at the 1% level of significance. The authors selected as the third group neurotic subjects who reported similar difficulties but their intensity was significantly smaller than in subjects of the examined group. Finally the results of the range of self-assessment were compared with differential therapeutic results (vasodilatating agents, nootropic agents).