[Effect of psychological family crises on manifestations of Alzheimer's disease in people of working age].

Retrospective data concerning the presence of psychological family crises during one year preceding the onset of the Alzheimer's have been analysed in a group of 73 patients. A diagnostic of the disease (revealing of the symptoms) defined the "onset" of the illness in this study. The results demonstrated that the psychological family crises are an important element of the etiopathogenesis of the Alzheimer's disease. Their better understanding might be therefore an important factor in preventing the illness. Since psychological crises are commonplace in the widely understood human population, a prospective study investigating their coincidence with the onset of the Alzheimer's disease might bring further interesting results and is being suggested by the author.