Vyyavlenie donozologicheskoy nervno-psikhicheskoy patologii, voznikayushchey v shkol'nom vozraste, imeet vazhnoe teoreticheskoy i prakticheskoe znachenie. Shkol'nyy vozrast yavlyaetsya klyuchevym v formirovanii ryada lichnostnykh kachestv cheloveka. V poslednie gody otmechaetsya rost pogranichnykh nervno-psikhicheskikh rasstroystv u shkol'nikov, chto yavlyaetsya svidetel'stvom neblagopriyatnykh sotsial'no-ekonomicheskikh tendentsiy v sovremennom obshchestve. V rabote obobshcheny rezul'taty mnogoletnikh gigienicheskikh, psikhofiziologicheskikh issledovaniy u 28810 shkol'nikov goroda Chelyabinska v vozraste ot 7-17 let. Utochneny pokazateli vyyavlyaemosti razlichnykh form pogranichnykh nervno-psikhicheskikh rasstroystv i vyyavleny gruppy faktorov provotsiruyushchie ikh razvitie, opredeleny kriterii donozologicheskoy diagnostiki psikhonevrologicheskikh zabolevaniy u shkol'nikov i vozmozhnost' ikh vyyavleniya, a takzhe korrektsii na dovrachebnom i vrachebnom etapakh. Avtor nadeetsya, chto poluchennye rezul'taty budut sposobstvovat' optimizatsii rekomendatsiy po korrektsii, a takzhe pervichnoy i vtorichnoy profilaktike pogranichnykh nervno-psikhicheskikh zabolevaniy.