The structure of mental disorders in patients with multiple sclerosis

Abstract

Disorders in the mental sphere in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) have been described since the moment of its isolation as an independent nosological unit. Unfortunately, insufficient attention was paid to these disorders, although they are one of the determining factors of the severity of the disease and the state of the patient's personal-environmental adaptation. MS patients have an extreme polymorphism of mental disorders with a wide range of psychopathological phenomena - from neurotic and personality disorders to psychotic conditions and epileptiform syndrome [4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 28, 34, 51]. Usually the latter do not go beyond the exogenous type of response [6], although more often the range of psychopathological phenomena in patients of this category is limited to disorders of the emotional and intellectual-mnestic spheres.