title: [The influence of hysterical symptoms on the comorbid mental disorders].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to investigate the influence of conversion-dissociative (hysterical) disorder on comorbid mental disorders.
  
  
  METHODS
  Authors examined 154 inpatients with conversion-dissociative disorder with comorbid mental pathology.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Conversion-dissociative hysterical symptoms mask or mimic main clinical manifestations of comorbid mental disorders and facilitate its exacerbations and deterioration.
authors.affiliation: Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Alekseev
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015897:Comorbidity; D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018450:Disease Progression; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D055815:Young Adult