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Abstract:
To investigate mental disorders in elderly patients, victims to the earthquake, 30 patients aged 50 to 68 years were examined. Somatic complaints played the leading part in the disease clinical picture. The basic group comprised 14 patients, victims to the earthquake, and the control group was made up of 16 patients with analogous disorders but they had not been exposed to the earthquake. The disease lasted 6 and more months. It has been shown that the basic group patients seen over time manifest depressive forms of reaction to the extreme situation whereas in the control group patients, somatic disorders turned out dominant.
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