title: [Current peculiarities of alcoholic psychosis].
abstract: The follow-up study of alcoholic psychoses in male patients admitted to a clinical department of a psychiatric hospital in 2005-2007 was carried out. Patients with alcoholic psychoses made up from 15 to 30% of all patients. The number of psychosis had seasonal variations with the elevations in spring and autumn, peaks in January, lune and October. Alcoholic delirium morbidity made up from 69 to 82% of the total number of alcoholic psychoses, alcoholic hallucinosis varied from 14 to 27%. Other forms were presented by single cases. In alcoholic delirium hallucinations had brighter, sated character. The most specific were visual hallucinations in the form of zoohallucinations, hallucinations of an oral cavity ("sensation of threads, hair etc"). The most often observable characters were "extraneous people, animal, demons". In alcoholic hallucinosis, verbal contrast hallucinations, making comment hallucinations, visual illusions were most frequent. The family history of mental disorders and alcoholism was noted in 30% of patients with alcoholic psychosis. The probability of occurrence of alcoholic psychoses depended on the quality of consumed drinks. The presence of a cranial-brain injury in the anamnesis considerably aggravated the disease forecast and increased the risk of seizure syndrome.
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Aleksin
authors.forename: A Iu
authors.initials: AIu
authors.lastname: Egorov
mesh_terms: D000430:Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011604:Psychoses, Alcoholic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology