[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 neurologic complications in chronic alcoholism]. / Refleksoterapiia nevrologicheskikh oslozhnenii pri khronicheskom alkogolizme.

To alleviate neurological complications (extrapyramidal and hypothalamic syndromes, polyneuropathies and polyneuritis) associated with chronic alcoholism, 227 patients received different variants of acupuncture (classical acupuncture with needles, electropuncture, laser puncture). During the first three days, to control the abstinence syndrome, all patients received classical acupuncture. Further application of one or another method of acupuncture was determined by the degree of neurological complications. The treatment was most effective in a group of patients with polyneuropathies and polyneuritis, whereas patients with the hypothalamic syndrome proved poorly responsive to the treatment.