title: [Clinical features of exogenous organic mental disorders in patients with HIV infection].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To specify clinical/dynamic features of organic mental disorders in patients with HIV and to characterize the formation and course of psychoorganic syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included 250 HIV-infected patients with mental disorders and 50 injection drug users (166 men and 84 women, mean age 30.6±6.3 years). Clinical, psychological methods and laboratory instrumental examinations were performed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Course of the infection process and premorbid personality play an important role in the development of exogenous organic mental disorders in patients with HIV infection.
authors.affiliation: Sechenov Ferst Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Chritinin
authors.affiliation: Pavlov Ryazan State Medical University, Ryazan, Russia.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Novikov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000821:virology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000821:virology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications; D055815:Young Adult