title: [Age mechanisms determining the specificity of depression with a prominent anxiety component in late middle-age].
abstract: States of anxiety-delusional depression in relation to age were compared in 79 patients aged 20 to 82 years with diseases of various nosology. It has been revealed that states of anxiety-delusional depression may occur at any age but their clinical manifestations are dependent on the age of patients. In youth, anxiety-delusional depression represents a part of complex psychopathological formations of predominantly oneiro-catatonic structure. With age, there is a reduction in psychic disturbances which results in an increasingly greater deviation from that accomplished stereotype of the development which is characteristic of young age. As a result of this simplification, states of anxiety-delusional depression assume a form which is consistent with the notion on the age-associated involutional-melancholic syndrome. This is also in agreement with the known tendency toward a general reduction and limitation of psychic disturbances in old age.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety; D003702:Delusions / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013577:Syndrome
vernacular_title: Vozrastnye mekhanizmy, opredeliaiushchie spetsifichnost' depressiĭ s vyrazhennym trevozhnym komponentom v pozhilom vozraste.