PSYCHOSOMATIC MOTOR DISORDERS IN DEPRESSI ON STRUCTURE OF CHILDREN AND JUVENILES

106 patients (40 boys and 66 girls) at the age from 3 to 15 years with depression of neurotic level with motor disorders (hyperkinetic, hypo kinetic, pseudoepilentic) were examined. The motor disorders were esti mated as pseudoneurological ones. The treatment of such patients must be performed with estimation of the typological variations of depressi on (asthenic type was observed in 31 cases, anxious type -in 37, melan cholic type -- in 6, combined type -- in 32), of the degree of depress ions manifestation, of their etiology as well as the pathological <<ba sis>> and personal peculiarities of the patients. 81 patients were tre ated by antidepressants (AD) in combination with tranquilizers and noo tropes. AD weren't applied in 25 cases. Of all the patients in which A D were used complete correction of pseudoneurological and depressive d isorders was observed in 46 cases (56,8%), considerable improvement -- in 26 patients, the improvement -- in 9 cases. Meanwhile improvement was observed only in 15 cases and slight improvement in 10 persons in patients who had not received any AD (group differences were significa nt).