title: [Pathopsychological aspect of studies of cognitive activity and personality characteristics during aging and in senile psychoses].
abstract: The paper is devoted to the organization, theory and practice of gerontological pathopsychology, including questions of differentiation between normal and pathological in gerontopsychiatry, validity and reliability of experimental-psychological methods. With special reference to a variety of forms of the insight of the disease in elderly age the author shows a multi-factorial nature of personality symptom complexes. The design of a pathopsychological study and the selection of experimental techniques are shown to depend on the nature of clinical tasks facing the investigator.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003071:Cognition; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D010551:Personality; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept; D013577:Syndrome; D014888:Wechsler Scales
vernacular_title: Patopsikhologicheskiĭ aspekt izucheniia poznavatel'noĭ deiatel'nosti i osobennosteĭ lichnosti pri starenii i psikhozakh pozdnego vozrasta.