[Characteristics of thinking recorded in experimental psychological studies of young people]. / Osobennosti myshleniia u molodykh liudei, fiksiruemye v éksperimental'nykh psikhologicheskikh issledovaniiakh.

AIM: To identify the features of thinking of young people, whose mental development was carried out in conditions of life virtualization (in a networked society). MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study included 310 mentally healthy respondents, aged from 18 to 20 years, who study in universities of St. Petersburg. Classical pathopsychological methods 'Exclusion of excess' and 'Comparison of concepts' were administered. The answers were divided into normative and non-normative, the latter were designated as psychopathological thinking phenomena (PPTP). RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: PPTP were identified in 84.3% of the answers, with the frequency from 1 to 4 and more. The significant prevalence of PPTP in healthy young people was shown. PPTP in young people were unpredictable and chaotic. They were represented by generalizations based on latent signs, broad generalizations, and by a number of parameters characteristic of distortion of thinking. These features should not be considered as specific indicators of thinking disorders because they reflect only changed conditions of mental development characterized by the deformation of semantic matrices and substitution of hierarchic structures for network structures and excess of signs with multiple meanings. The results should be taken into consideration when evaluating the results of pathopsychological experiments.

[Effect of emotional painful stress on affinity of blood to oxygen, on the antioxidant system and physical properties of the hepatocyte microsomal membrane].

The emotional-painful stress causes a more pronounced decrease in affinity of hemoglobin to oxygen in portal blood compared with mixed blood. This contributes to increased oxygen pressure in hepatocytes and activates free radical processes in liver microsomes. Activation of lipid peroxidation is accompanied by changes in physical properties (microviscosity, polarity) of microsomal membranes. However, the increase in duration of stress treatment changes in the studied parameters become adaptive; this is accompanied by gradual normalization in blood affinity to oxygen, physical properties of membranes and the increase in antioxidant defence. Possible mechanisms of interaction of these systems during adaptation and regulation of free radical oxydation are discussed.

[Forms and method of rehabilitation therapy and social-occupational rehabilitation of patients with the sequelae of cerebrovascular diseases]. / Formy metody vosstanovitel'noi terapii i sotsial'no-trudovoi reabilitatsii bol'nkh s posledstviiami sosudistykh zabolevanii mozga.

The authors give some data on restitutional therapy of 516 patients (400 with sequelae following strokes and 116 with transient disorders of cerebral circulation). Treatment of the first group was made in a neurological ward, the second--in a cardiological sanatorium. The programme of restitutional therapy provided the use of psychosocial and biological methods, an appeal to the personality and stage-by-stage accomplishment of rehabilitative measures. Comprehensive restitutional therapy included psychotherapy, medical-activizing regimes, medical gymnastics, massage, occupational therapy, medicinal therapy, etc. The authors elaborated differentiated complexes of rehabilitative treatment for patients with spastic hemiparesis, normal or decreased tone, as well as for patients with transient disorders of cerebral circulation in conditions of a cardiological sanatorium. The indices of effectiveness were the following: an improvement of the condition in patients after brain strokes--97.8%, in patients with transient disorders of cerebral circulation--94%.