The clinical picture of craniopharyngiomas (CPs) is diverse and polymorphic in its manifestations, including endocrine, neurological disorders, visual and mental impairment. Mental disorders in the clinical picture of CPs are detected from 6 to 100 %, according to the literature. But more often one can find a description of individual syndromes only — memory impairment, disorders of the emotional sphere and/or behavior. There is not enough information about mental disorders in different topographic and anatomical variants of craniopharyngioma, possible pathognomonic psychopathological symptoms and/or syndromes. Objective of the article is to describe mental disorders in the clinical picture of craniopharyngioma with different topographic and anatomical variants in adults. Materials and methods. The study included 120 adult patients (18–68 years old, mean age 39 ± 2; 59 women and 61 men) who were first admitted for treatment to the National Medical Research Center for Neurosurgery named after academician N. N. Burdenko with the diagnosis of craniopharyngioma (2007–2015). The clinical-psychopathological method was the main in the research. Results. Mental disorders in the clinical picture of CPs were detected in 103 (85.8 %) patients before surgery in the form of the main syndromes: asthenic syndrome was found in 83 (69 %) patients, emotional-volitional disorders in 79 (65,8 %), amnestic disorder in 71 (59,1 %), personality changes in 71 (59,1 %), paroxysmal conditions in 55 (45,8 %), sleep and dream disorders in 54 (45 %), consciousness disorders in 24 (20 %) patients. Mental disorders did not appear separately, but in combination with each other, prevailing in the clinical picture to one degree or another in various topographic and anatomical variants of craniopharyngioma, respectively. Conclusion. Mental disorders in the clinical picture of CPs were detected in 85,8 % of patients before surgery, they were determined by the location of the tumor lesion — topographic and anatomical variant of CP, the spread and influence of the tumor on the structures of the diencephalic region, limbic system, and third ventricle: in 65 % of cases with endosuprasellar craniopharyngioma, in 86 % of cases with stem craniopharyngioma, in 100 % of cases with extra- and intraventricular CPs.