[Mental disorders in women during menopause].

Altogether 126 patients with mental disorders of the non-psychotic nature, that occurred for the first time during menopause were examined. Different vegetative disorders (hot flush, hyperhidrosis, blood pressure fluctuations, asphyxia sensation, numbness of the limbs, skin burning, chill, pruritus) played the leading part in the clinical picture. The mental disorders manifested in the form of extensive age-related , asthenic, hysteric, phobic and depressive disorders. The long-term climacteric was likely to give rise to the formation of a pathological personality.