Geriatric Psychiatry Guide

The leadership provides a history of the development of geriatric psychiatry in Russia, the issues of etiology and pathogenesis of mental illness, characteristic of a late age, are highlighted. Modern ideas about clinical manifestations, laws of current, diagnostics criteria and therapeutic recommendations are systematized in relation to the main forms of mental pathology of elderly and senile age: various clinical and nosological forms of dementia, psychoses of late age, affective and border mental disorders. The current state and prospects for the development of domestic gerontopsychiatric care is highlighted.

The manual is intended for psychiatrists, neurologists, gerontologists, general practitioners who are interested in the problem of diagnosis and treatment of a late -age mental pathology, as well as for researchers in the field of geriatric psychology and neurology , gerontology, clinical pharmacology and neurobiology.