Analiz sushchestvuyushchikh gipotez etiopatogeneza rasseyannogo skleroza pozvolyaet otmetit' slabuyu razrabotannost' morfofunktsional'nykh osobennostey i ikh vliyaniya na techenie bolezni i prognoz. Malo izuchena rol' i znachenie emotsional'nykh narusheniy v klinicheskoy kartine i techenii rasseyannogo skleroza. V rabote osveshchena vzaimosvyaz' ochagovoy nevrologicheskoy i psikhoemotsional'noy simptomatiki. Pokazana vzaimosvyaz' lichnostnykh i konstitutsional'nykh morfologicheskikh kharakteristik u bol'nykh RS, osobennosti psikhologicheskoy zashchity v razvitii psikhoemotsional'nogo perenapryazheniya. Pokazano, chto kharakter patologicheskogo affekta i osobennosti psikhologicheskoy zashchity bol'nykh opredelyayut predraspolozhennost' k psikhicheskoy dezadaptatsii v usloviyakh khronicheskogo emotsional'nogo stressa i sledovatel'no, k poyavleniyu i progressirovaniyu bolezni. Sochetanie psikhosotsial'nykh, biologicheskikh i psikhologicheskikh komponentov v patogeneticheskoy modeli rasseyannogo skleroza opredelyayut varianty techeniya i prognoz. Kniga orientirovana na nevrologov, psikhiatrov, klinicheskikh psikhologov i spetsialistov vrachebno-trudovoy ekspertizy.