Abstract
Clinical observations were conducted on cases of confusional state in senility excluding those showing clear-cut symptoms of encephalic origin. As a result about 10 per cent of psychic patients in senility proved to be in confusional state, and of them 35 cases were selected for further study and they were classified into four groups according to the following factors: namely, group I due to physiological factor; group II due to cardiac factor; group III due to physiological and cardiac factor; and group IV revealieg not any definitive causative factors.
In amital tests carried out by the method of Weinstein as probing tests for the reserve capacity of consciousness or perception, it has been demonstrated that in the confusional state of senility, personality, weakening of reserve capacity, cardiac factor (predominantly in females), and physiological factor constitute important causative factors.
For the treatment of 13 such cases cytidine-monophosphate was given, and such a treatment proved effective on 7 cases (over 5) per cent of them).
