[Predispositional and "process" factors in the pathology of cognitive activity in schizophrenia].

Psychological studies demonstrated certain changes of speech and thinking in schizophrenic patients, increasing as the morbid process develops. However these changes cannot be considered as specific schizophrenic and apparently are related to changes of more general factors, determining mental activity and particular an increase in it. The conducted studies permit to single out in the pathology of cognitive activity of schizophrenia changes which are connected both with the process and predispositional factors, the interaction of which determines its expressivity in the cognitive activity during the process of a schizophrenic defect formation.