[Neurosis-like disorders in endogenous psychoses]

An analysis of the clinical aspects in 156 patients with schizophrenia and 48 patients with maniac-depressive syndrome revealing symptoms in the form of neurasthenic, hysteric, obsessive and other effective manifestations allowed to establish an essential difference of neurosis-like disorders according to forms of schizophrenia at older age, in larved depressions within the limits of maniac-depressive psychosis. For precision of the nosological diagnosis of schizophrenia the authors based their conclusions on characteristic of this disease positive and negative psychopathological disorders with emphasis of thinking disorders ("atactic thinking") and peculiar changes of personality (apathetic-abulic defect).