Drive disorders syndrome in children and adolescents (age and nosological aspects)

43 children and adolescens, 27 boys and 16 girls aged 7 to 15, with the drive disorders syndrome were Investigated. The diagnosis of schizophrenia was in 30 patients (the first group), residual organic brain damage In 13 (the second group). In the first group an onset of disease coincided with the first age crisis (3-4 years). Among the variants of the drive disorders such disorders as a runaway from home and wandering, that had Irresistible and Impulsive character were dominant. Near the puberty, the sexual and aggressive-sadistic drives prevailed. The drive disorders were accompanied with affective, neurotic-like and some other psychopathological symptoms. In the second group the first manifestations of the drive disorders coincided with the young school-age (7-9 years) period and these disorders occurred in the prepuberty (10-12 years) more frequently. The drives to the theft, runaway from home and wandering, aggression, increased sexual drive were dominant. The signs of psychic infantilism and Immature emotional-will sphere come forward in the patients of this group. It was determined that inherited-constitutional as well as social factors are very significant for formation of the drive disorders syndrome.