Mental disorders

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2025

Ministry of Health: 8.9 million people in Russia suffer from diseases of the nervous system

Russia In almost 8.9 million people suffer from diseases of the nervous system. This was announced in May 2025 by the director of the department for the organization of medical care and sanatorium-resort business. Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Ekaterina Karakulina She noted that the number of people with the first recorded disease of the nervous system, which were established for the first time in life, amounted to 2.1 million. Special attention is paid - multiple sclerosis more than 101,000 people are sick with this disease.^[1]

A new method for diagnosing mental deviations by EEG has been developed in Russia

Russian scientists have developed a new method for diagnosing mental abnormalities using electroencephalography (EEG). The study was presented on February 28, 2025 by a group of specialists from the Engineering and Physics Institute of Biomedicine, NRNU MEPhI, led by Doctor of Medical Sciences Sergei Gulyaev. The new approach allows for a more accurate interpretation of the brain's electrical activity and the detection of functional abnormalities in the early stages. Read more here.

2024:10 regions of Russia with the largest number of mentally ill people

In May 2025, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation published current data on the number of citizens of the country with diagnosed mental disorders. According to the Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistical System (UIISS), the highest prevalence of such diseases was recorded in Moscow, the Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Sverdlovsk Region.

According to all-Russian statistics for 2024, 4.01 million cases of mental disorders were registered. Among the regions with the highest indicators, Moscow is in the lead with 248.1 thousand cases, followed by the Moscow region (203.3 thousand), St. Petersburg (179.7 thousand). It is noted that in the Republic of Bashkortostan in 2024 the number of patients with mental disorders decreased by 128 people compared to the previous year.

Svetlana Shport, Director General of the V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Narcology, said that of the total number of Russians with mental disorders, about two-thirds of cases are depression, anxiety disorders and other disorders that require special attention from specialists.

Since 2024, Russia has updated standards for the provision of psychiatric care. In accordance with them, polyclinics provide for the creation of medical and psychological support rooms, where psychological consultations are available in the compulsory health insurance system. The work of sexologists who provide assistance to patients with disorders related to sexual development, orientation and identification is also regulated.^[2]

2023: Russia reveals 10-year record number of people with mental health conditions

On July 8, 2024, it became known that in 2023 a record number of people suffering from mental disorders was revealed in Russia over the past 10 years. According to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 460.4 thousand people registered during this period, which is 314.4 cases per 100 thousand population. This figure exceeds the data of 2022, when 460.1 thousand cases were registered, and 2021 with an indicator of 430 thousand people.

According to GxP News, the largest increase in incidence was recorded Yamal-Nenets in (477.4 cases per 100 thousand population) Khanty-Mansiysk and autonomous districts (309.4 cases), in (Tula 291.5 cases) and (Nizhny Novgorod regions 223.8 cases), as well as in (Republic of Udmurtia 341.2 cases).

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The Institute for Health Indicators and Assessment reports that in Russia, from 15.4 to 17.7 million people suffer from mental disorders. According to the Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Oleg Salagai, about 5.6 million people with such diseases are registered in the country. Psychiatrist Nadezhda Panova explains the increase in the incidence of the success of modern psychiatry in identifying diseases and the increased confidence of citizens in this field of medicine. She stressed that "people did not get sick more often, they began to be treated more often."

Panova also noted that thanks to modern doctors, psychiatry in Russia is confidently getting rid of the halo of punitive behavior acquired in Soviet times. In 2024, Russian psychiatrists work not only with severe cases of schizophrenia and organic disorders, but also with the so-called small psychiatry, where the patient's condition balances on the verge of normal. Previously, such patients often remained out of the field of view of specialists, and today they are successfully treated, almost without changing their lifestyle.^[3][4]

2022

HTDev has registered an intelligent program to assess the likelihood of having mental disorders

On November 10, 2022, HTDev announced that it had registered the intellectual program "PAC of examination of the EEG" Zyfra. " Read more here.

iCognito trains AI to recognize psychological disorders by message

The company -Skolkovo resident iCognito September 16, 2022 announced that on the basis of more than 50 million messages, users are trained AI to recognize shades of psychological states and human disorders in order to data build recommendations for psychotherapy on the basis of these. The first version of the product with an advanced AI component is scheduled to be launched in mid-2023. More. here

2021: Neural networks have learned to identify mental disorders

On November 9, 2021, iCognito announced two studies to establish the possibility of recognizing psychological symptoms and disorders by text. For research, open messages from psychological forums and messages left by users in iCognito computer psychotherapy programs were used. Read more here.

2019: Craving for eating spoons and forks

In 2019, a 52-year-old resident Holland named Margaret was on the operating table after she went to doctors with complaints of abdominal pain. An X-ray showed that there were many foreign objects in her esophagus.

The Dutch woman urgently underwent an operation. Surgeons were surprised to remove 78 spoons and forks from her body. After the woman moved away from anesthesia, she admitted that she only wanted to "eat silver and could not resist."

It turned out that she used to be fed with cutlery from time to time. After that, the silver farmer undergoes treatment with a psychiatrist. The doctor revealed her borderline disorder, which is expressed in craving for spoons and forks.

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