Oligophrenia Asphyctic

Oligophrenia is the general name for congenital or acquired at an early age non-progradient forms of dementia resulting from underdevelopment or damage to the brain (brain damage). It is manifested by the presence of persistent intellectual impairments, inappropriate situations and behavior. The diagnosis is established on the basis of clinical, pathopsychological (using tests) and neuropathological studies, including an assessment of not only the level of intellectual development, but also the severity and structure of the defect. The classification of oligophrenia presents 19 psychopathological variants related to three main forms of the disease: uncomplicated oligophrenic; pathology of the nervous system complicated by oligophrenia, etc., as well as other morphological and chromosomal abnormalities leading to mental retardation. From a modern point of view, the problem of oligophrenia as a whole comes down to elucidating the insufficiency of specific forms of the central nervous system that shape intelligence. There are endogenous - caused by hereditary rare metabolic diseases, brain damage in the prenatal period or immediately after the birth of a child, toxic - resulting from a number of unfavorable factors (alcohol, chloroform and