[Interrelations between the main forms of the course of schizophrenia and the morphological phenotype of patients' constitution (clinico- anthropometric data)].

In order to study interrelations between schizophrenia forms and the constitutional morphological type of the patients, as many as 840 schizophrenic patients and 282 normal subjects of the control group underwent ++clinico-anthropometric examinations. Comparison of the distribution of the pyknic, normosthenic and asthenic types of build-up in patients with schizophrenia and in the control group of healthy subjects did not reveal material differences and tropism of this endogenous psychosis to the constitution. It has been shown at the same time that at the probability level, the asthenic somatotype is the basis for continuous-progressive forms of the disease; the pyknic type of the build-up is based on the recurrent and shift-like forms with circular features, whereas the normosthenic somatic type forms the basis for the attack-like progressive form. The data obtained permit a conclusion that formation of schizophrenia forms is determined not only by the general pathological regularities common to the given disease but also by the individual typological peculiarities characteristic of different ++morpho-phenotypes of constitution.