title: [Somatopsychic synergism as a variant of masked depression in children and adolescents].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze a variant of a combination of psychopathological (subdepressive) state with inflammatory diseases of non-specific infectious origin.
  
  
  METHODS
  The paper was based on the study of 45 patients, aged from 12 to 19 years, examined using psychopathological and follow-up methods. A detailed somatic examination was performed as well.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Authors described a phenomenon of somatopsychic synergism as a variant of a combination of somatic pathology (adenoviral and coccus infections) with subclinical affective syndromes of cyclothymic and schizophrenic origin. This phenomenon is opposed to somatopsychic antagonism which is qualified as a specific form of masked subdepressive states predominantly of asthenic/dynamic structure.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Research Center, Moscow.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Severnyi
authors.affiliation: The Association of Child Psychiatrists and Psycholodgists, Moscow.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Yovchuk