[Typology of affective disorders on the neurotic level in essential hypertension].

A study of 123 hypertensive patients in conditions of a specialized department of a cardiological Institute has shown the predominance of depressive disorders with a certain prevalence of the anxiety affect at the first stages and the melancholical affect at the subsequent stages. States with the leading affects of dysphoria and hyperthymia are observed less frequently and only at advanced stages of the disease. The authors outline the role of personality and situational-psychological characteristics as well as the stage and the course of the vascular process itself in the formation of affective disturbances.