[Clinico-pathogenetic aspects of pathologic premorbid conditions in alcoholic psychoses]

A study was made of the pattern of the clinicopathogenetic correlation of the pathological premorbid condition and alcoholic psychoses in 689 patients. Three degrees of the pathogenicity of the pathological ground and a respective grouping of alcoholic psychoses were distinguished. For correlation analysis purposes 4 most informative factors and 12 parameters mirroring the main tendencies of the pathogenesis of alcoholic psychoses were also distinguished. A regularity was discovered, according to which each of the 4 factors produces a different effect on the clinicopathogenetic mechanisms and formation of the varieties of alcoholic psychoses. The author puts forward a rationale for increased proneness of patients suffering from alcoholism with the pathological premorbid condition to the development of alcoholic psychoses.