[Autonomic infantilism].

In the middle of the last century the term od infantilism was introduced in medical terminology denoting the retardation in physical and/or psychic development with the features characteristic of childhood and adolescent age. From that time on, numerous authors have described various forms of retardation in the development and psychic infantilism in various aspects has been put in the first place, such as: dysharmonious, organic, cerebrostenic, neuropathic, dysproportional, endocrine and others. The retardation in the development of the vegetative nervous system was defined as a special form of infantilism by I. Popov in 1976 who suggested the term "vegetative infantilism". Conception of the idea of vegetative infantilism has made the theoretic basis for the whole range of very heterogenous appearances in the developing age being manifested as the sequal of the retardation in the development of vegetative nervous system, such as: affective respiratory spasms, encopresis, urination in sleeping (enuresis nocturna), urination at an awakening stage (enuresis diurna), various disturbances in the function of the cardiovascular system, digestive tract and others.