[Clinical features of early alcoholism in adolescents with a slight handicap of exogenous etiology].

On the basis of clinico-psychopathological and experimental-psychological examination of male children and adolescents with general mental retardation of exogenous etiology and the signs of alcoholism of different severity, the authors describe the diagnostic importance of additional symptoms of alcoholism. They also consider correlations between the age at the beginning of systematic alcohol abuse and the clinical picture of the first states of intoxication with the clinico-physiological form of oligophrenia. The data on the psychopathological manifestations of the major syndromes of early alcoholism in the course of disease are presented.