The article is devoted to the urgent problem of modern preventive medicine, that is to student youth’s disability to adapt. Present-day students take a risk as for the disturbance of adaptive processes in the circumstances of learning process intensification. The article presents some examples of disability to adapt reactions, their beginnings and course in different periods of higher education depending on the chosen profession, form of studying and physical and psychological health in a premorbid condition. The author suggests the ways of preventive activity to avert these phenomena.
