[Correlations among the main syndromes of chronic alcoholism].

Alcohol addiction seen in alcoholics is shown to constitute a part of alcoholic psychic degradation; it is reflected in emotional and volitional derangements, and determines the nosologic specificity of this degradation. Intellectual and mnemic disturbances are regarded as nonspecific psychoorganic ones, and they are directly associated with the volume of alcohol consumed and the severity of intoxication. Similar relations were revealed between alcohol addiction and the alcohol abstinence syndrome: alcohol addiction is combined with nosologically neutral post-intoxication disturbances and imparts the nosological specificity to the entire symptom-complex.