Сlinical and psychopathological features of the structure of affective disorders in elderly patients

Abstract

Last decades approaches to an assessment of an outcome of depressive distress at persons of serotinal age have undergone essential changes. Along with conservation of traditional methodology in definition of categories of an outcome of depression and their division into the ongenial and unfavorable bunches (Jhingan H.P., Sagar R., 2001; Baldwin R.CandGallagley A., 2006), representation about criteria of reference of each concrete variant of an outcome to one of these categories has extended.