[Clinico-psychopathologic and electroencephalographic correlations in patients with cranio-cerebral trauma during laser therapy]. / Kliniko-psikhopatologicheskie i élektroéntsefalograficheskie korreliatsii u bo'lnykh s cherepno-mozgovoi travmoi pri lazernoi terapii.

A total of 96 patients with severe craniocerebral trauma were treated and divided into 3 groups: 1, with prevailing left brain hemisphere lesions manifested by right-sided pyramidal symptoms (N = 32); 2, prevailing right brain hemispheric lesions and left hemisyndrome (N = 35); 3, lacking in distinct focal interhemispheric differences in trauma localization with prevalent general cerebral signs. Control group consisted of 45 patients conventionally drug-treated without laser. Laser therapy was performed as a course of 12 to 15 sessions according to regimens settled for each group of patients. Positive result was an accelerated regression of both neurological and psychopathological manifestations of severe trauma. The treatment proved most efficient (with considerable improvement) in 85% of the Group 2 patients. Considerable improvement was noted in 23% of Group 1 patients; improvement was evident in 58% of the Group 3 patients. As a whole, laser treatment proved 25% more effective as related to the control group.

[Reflexotherapy of asthenic conditions in neuroses]. / Refleksoterapiia astenicheskikh sostoianii pri nevrozakh.

The results of clinico-psychological examination of 121 patients have demonstrated that acupuncture is a fairly effective method of treating asthenic states in neurotic patients. Thus, considerable improvement and improvement has been observed in 67% of the patients. The absence of positive effect in the remaining cases is explained by an aggravated history, a stubborn course of the disease, and depletion of the functional activity of the sympathoadrenal system (SAS) and the adrenal cortex. Normalization of EEG rhythm is effected through activation of the synchronizing and inactivation of the desynchronizing cerebral systems; the positive dynamics of the structure of nocturnal sleep is reflected in an increased duration of slow sleep and rapid sleep which were initially reduced, in more regular alternation of the cycles and phases of sleep, and in a shorter period of falling asleep. Biochemical examinations have revealed activation of the mediatory component of the SAS and elevation of the function of the adrenal cortex, while baroalgesimetric studies have shown that acupuncture is characterized by antinociceptive and activizing effects. On the whole the efficacy of acupuncture in controlling asthenic conditions related to neuroses is due to its integral action.

[Electrophysiological research on pain and itching in the clinic]. / Elektrofiologicheskoe issledovanie boli i zuda v klinike.

To study the central mechanisms of pain and itching, the authors performed electroencephalographic (EEG) examination in acupuncture-treated patients with diffuse neurodermatitis (n = 43) and trigeminal neuralgia (n = 25). The most characteristic EEG finding was increased synchronization of the cortical rhythm. The revealed EEG features point to the functional involvement of the thalamocortical system in the development of pain and itching. Changes of clinical and electrophysiological parameters in the course of acupuncture treatment is an additional evidence of the morphofunctional unity of the development of pain and itching.

[Relation between clinico-physiologic indices of sleep and the nature of stress and reflexotherapy application]. / Zavisimost' kliniko-fiziologicheskikh pokazatelei sna ot kharaktera stressa i refleksoterapevticheskogo vozdeistviia.

The time-course of the structure of nocturnal sleep in normal subjects in conditions of a single sleep deprivation (acute sleep deprivation) and in neurotic patients with chronic sleep deprivation has been studied. The efficacy of acupuncture under different conditions is analyzed. The results obtained suggest a differential nature of the acupuncture effect in conditions of acute and chronic sleep deprivation. In acute sleep deprivation in normal subjects electrical acupuncture activates both synchronizing and desynchronizing mechanisms of the cerebral nonspecific systems. In chronic disturbances of sleep associated with neuroses acupuncture activates the synchronizing systems and inhibits the cerebral deactivating systems. Preventive acupuncture is recommended as a method increasing the activity of people working on night shifts (operators, traffic controllers, etc.).

[Reflexotherapy of neurotic patients with depressive-hypochondriacal manifestations]. / Refleksoterapiia bol'nykh nevrozami s depressivno-ipokhondricheskimi proiavleniiami.

Forty-one neurotic patients with pronounced depressive-hypochondriac symptomatology were treated by acupuncture. A decrease in the psychoemotional and algetic symptoms (sleep restoration, increased working capacity) following acupuncture was attended by certain changes in the nocturnal and diurnal EEG with the prevailing activation of the synchronizing mechanisms of nonspecific brain systems which suggests that the structures of the thalamo-cortical and nonspecific cerebral level are involved in the realization of the acupuncture therapeutic effect and that it is advisable to activate the synchronizing cerebral mechanisms.