Diagnostics and treatment of mental disorders in patients with rheumatic diseases


T.A. Lisitsyna, D.Yu. Vel’tishchev

1 V.A. Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, Laboratory of systemic rheumatic diseases, Division of vascular pathology, Moscow 2 Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry – branch of Federal Medical Research Centre of Psychiatry and Narcology, Department of stress disorders, Moscow
The lecture covers the issues of prevalence, structure, and features of course of mental disorders (MD), which are relevant for patients with immuno-inflammatory rheumatic diseases (RD). The risk factors for MD development, their pathogenesis, the relationship with inflammatory activity and the main clinical symptoms of RD are discussed in detail. Particular attention is paid to the diagnosis and treatment of MD in patients with RD in primary health care settings and rheumatological hospitals.

About the Autors


Tatiana A. Lisitsyna, MD, leading researcher of Laboratory of systemic rheumatic diseases, Division of vascular pathology, V.A. Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology. Address: 115522, Moscow, 34A Kashirskoe shosse. Tel.: +74996143965. E-mail: talisitsyna@rambler.ru

Dmitry Yu. Vel’tishchev, MD, head of Department of stress disorders of Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry – branch of Federal Medical Research Centre of Psychiatry and Narcology. Address: 107076, Moscow, 3 Poteshnaya St. Tel.: +74999631324


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