Key words: higher brain functions, gender and age specifics, cognitive disorders, multiple sclerosis Conditions of higher cerebral functions in patients with multiple sclerosis VOLOSHYN-HAPONOV Ivan Pages: 5-9 Ukrains'kyi Visnyk Psykhonevrolohii 2010, Volume 18, issue 2 (63) Index UDK: 616.832-004.2:616.82