[Oxygen consumption in neurotic patients]

29 male patients with neuroses (neurasthenia in 15 individuals, phobic neurosis in 14 persons) were observed using 22 indexes of oxygen transport and utilization including physical loading (running). Neurotic patients were differed from healthy individuals by lower both absolute and relative maximal oxygen consumption (MOC) values as well as by lower indexes of lungs ventilations, CO2 elimination, respiration frequencies and breath depth. The low maximal metabolism values, low values of energy production maximum, total running time, critical speed, low maximum lactate concentration and its slowing-down during restoration peroid, as well as less pH and BE values displacement after loading were also observed in patients. It was supposed that MOC as well energy potentials decrease may be of significant importance in neurotic disturbances development.