[Schizophrenia complicated by craniocerebral trauma and other diseases of an exogenous and organic nature].

The authors examined 120 patients with schizophrenia (torpid and paroxysmal-progressive) whose disease at different stages of its course was complicated by exogenous impacts (head trauma in 66 cases, neuroinfection in 15, intoxication in 16 and vascular brain disease in 23). These complications affect the structure of individual psychopathological syndromes on the one hand and the rate of the development of the disease itself (with a faster formation of productive and negative syndromes) on the other. Correlation has been found between the degree of exogenous impact and the severity of asthenic and memory-intellectual disturbances and the disease course on the whole. The therapeutic tactics in these complicated forms of the disease is outlined.