[Comparative-age analysis of the socially dangerous acts of late middle-aged mental patients (epidemiologic study)]

A comparative epidemiological study covered two groups of patients (n = 4811), aged 55 years and over, diametrically differing with regard to the origin of the disease: (1) schizophrenic patients and patients with mental disturbances in the long-term period of craniocerebral trauma. The authors consider age-specific peculiarities of the rate and structure of antisocial actions, as well as their relationship with some clinical, social, and demographic characteristics of the patients.