[Clinical picture of the late stages of sluggishly-progressing schizophrenia in advanced age].

Under examination there were 190 patients over 60 years of the age suffering from sluggishly progressing schizophrenia and observed at dispensaries for the long time. The course of the psychopathological disorders characteristic of that disease was followed in them for many decades. At the late age a tendency to a regression of most productive symptoms, a certain enlivening of the emotional-volitional sphere, and exaggeration of the signs of the personality structure deformity was revealed. Two types of the negative disorders are specified: one with prevalence of intellectual-volitional impairments (prognostically less favourable), and the other with prevalence of affective changes (prognostically more favourable). Comparative results of studying the time course of the personality's post-process changes in 158 ambulatory patients of the same age are also presented.