[Mental disorders in senile age patients with cerebrovascular disease and postural instability]

The features of psychiatric disorders in senile cerebrovascular patients and their relationships with postural disorders were investigated. The dizziness and imbalance lead to social exclusion of patients, which contributes to emotional disorders, a frequent variant of which is depression (71 % of cases). A close correlation of anxious and depressive symptoms was received (59 % of cases). It was showed by computerized stabilometry that emotional disorders exacerbate existing imbalance, reflected in increasing of speed of the center of pressure, length and area of statokineziogramm.