Abstract

To specify clinical/dynamic features of organic mental disorders in patients with HIV and to characterize the formation and course of psychoorganic syndrome. The study included 250 HIV-infected patients with mental disorders and 50 injection drug users (166 men and 84 women, mean age 30.6±6.3 years). Clinical, psychological methods and laboratory instrumental examinations were performed. Course of the infection process and premorbid personality play an important role in the development of exogenous organic mental disorders in patients with HIV infection.

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