[Clinical analysis of senile and non-senile affective psychosis].

Abstract

This article analysed 101 cases of affective psychosis in accordance with CCMD-2 diagnosis criteria. There were 42 cases over and 59 under 60 in age. The results indicated that the patients of the senile affective psychotics accounted for 30.47% of the hospitalized psychotics in the same time. 78.57% of the old group were psychically and somatically precipitated. The proportion was much higher than the non-senile. The degree of the senile group was much higher than the non-senile in manic attack, while it was much lower in depressive attack. The dosages and the plasma level of Li in the former were markedly decreased in comparison to the latter group.