Characteristics of hallucinatory-paranoid disorders in patients with vascular dementia of different stages of development

Introduction The most frequent and severe non-cognitive disorders in dementia are hallucinatory-paranoid disorders (HPD), which cause social dysfunction and financial burden of this pathology. Objectives To study the features of HPD in vascular dementia (VD), an approach using clinical-psychopathological, psychometric, psychodiagnostic and mathematical-statistical methods was used. Methods The study was based on the examination of 75 patients with HPD in VD and 63 patients with VD without HPD. Results In patients with VD in the middle stage of development in the structure of clinical manifestations was dominated by frequent paranoid and paranoid disorders (in 75.6% of patients, p