Analysis of tendencies and perspectives of neurogerontology development

Expert questioning was performed in accordance with special questionnaire of 42 Ukrainian and 39 reading foreign gerontologists to reveal the tendencies and perspectives in the development of neurogerontology. The authors analyzed the opinion of the world scientists about the degree of the development and the significance of specific research trends, about the role of the separate forms of age-dependent pathology of central nervous system in structure of morbidity in the old age, about the role of NG in complex investigations concerning life prolongation, etc. Above-mentioned collective ''portrait'' of the modern NG permitted to ground more profoundly scientific priorities, planning and design of the studies in gerontology.