[Pathogenetic mechanisms and classification of manic-depressive psychosis].
A study of the heredity and exogenic factors in 340 patients with manic-depressive psychosis makes it possible to draw a conclusion that the disorder is polyetiological. In a bipolar development there is mainly a hereditary loading and organic noxious factors, in a monopolar depression--exhaustive factors. The assumption of an existence of 2 independent psychoses (bipolar and monopolar) which was made by several foreign authors was not confirmed.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011599:Psychopathology
Nekotorye patogeneticheskie mekhanizmy i klassifikatsiia maniakal'no-depressivnogo psikhoza