title: [Personality characteristics of patients with prosopalgias].
abstract: The MMPI test, Hornblow and Kidson's visual-analog anxiety scale and two types of the painful "questionnaires" suggested by the authors were used to examine the status of emotional personality sphere in 61 patients with prosopalgias due to typical trigeminal neuralgia (n = 39), dental plexalgia (n = 13) and pulpitis (n = 9). It has been revealed that patients with typical trigeminal neuralgia demonstrate the predominance of the depressive syndrome, whereas dental plexalgia is mostly characterized by anxiety. Analysis of the semantic tests is very instrumental in helping the physician to deepen the idea of the structure of subjective sensations in facial pain. Meanwhile the indicators of the "daily pain scale" promote administration of the drugs from the standpoint of chronotherapy.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Stepanchenko
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Puzin
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Nekrasova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010551:Personality; D011671:Pulpitis / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D014098:Toothache / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Lichnostnye osobennosti bol'nykh prozopalgiiami.