[Asthenic disorders in the clinical picture of chronic neurosis-like diseases].

Studies into asthenic disorders associated with somato-infectious pathology and neurosis-like schizophrenia made it possible to reveal certain features. They manifest themselves in the prevailing in schizophrenic patients of the endogenous psychopathological signs over the exogenous ones, in essential relation of asthenic manifestations to specific deficiency. The differences found can be used for more effective nosological identification of chronic-progressive neurosis-like disorders, conditions and diseases.