THE IMPAIRMENTS OF PSYCHICAL PROCESSES IN PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
There have been presented the results of psychological study of the patients with multiple sclerosis. In 80 % of patients there have been revealed the impairments of psychical activity: language disorders of a kind of blurring and the loss of distinction in pronouncing the sounds (28 %); the difficulties in understanding of the language addressed to somebody (39 %); the impairments in cognitive processes - thought (76 %), attention (85 %), memory (70 %); emotional sphere (67 %) playing a significant role for the understanding of a psychological picture of the disease. Psycho-emotional background is often a factor determining the state of a given category of the patients that must be taken into consideration in carrying out the therapeutic- rehabilitative measures and psychological correction.