[Reactive depression of advanced age. Its typology, clinical course and outcome in the comparative age-related aspect].

Thirty-seven patients aged 50 to 84 with reactive depressions which first manifested in involution (50 to 65) or senile (over 65 years) periods were under this investigation. The depressions were divided into 4 groups according to their syndromal structure peculiarities: hysterodepressions, anxious, melancholic and maladaptive-type depressions. In both age groups the differences were marked primarily in such clinical manifestations as the contents of psychogenic complex, anxiety affect and depressive delirium. The study discovered that the age of manifestation is one of determinants of clinical signs and further development of reactive depressions. The later these are manifested, the worse is prognosis.