Heredity in the development of mental disorders in cerebral atherosclerosis

Abstract

Cerebral atherosclerosis is the main reason for exclusion from the social life of elderly people, and the occurrence of psychosis is most often the first signal of the "fatal course of cerebral vascular disease" [1]. In this regard, quantitative assessments of the role of unfavorable hereditary burden as a risk factor in the development of mental disorders in cerebral atherosclerosis are of importance.