[The emotional status and indices of cortical neurodynamics in hypertension patients].

At early stages of essential hypertension (EH) clinical psychological examinations of 96 EH patients revealed predominance of anxiety-hypochondriac responses controlled by will. Changes in cortical neurodynamics were evident from a decline in attention concentration. At EH stage II persistent hypertension and prolonged psychogenias gave rise to psychic disadaptation occurring as anxious-depressive conditions. Damage to cortical neurodynamics brought about mnestic and thinking disorders.