[Mental disorders in workers exposed to chemicals at work]. / Psikhicheskie narusheniia u rabotaiushchikh s khimicheskimi veshchestvami.

The article considers data on boundary psychic disorders in subjects exposed to chemicals of I-II jeopardy classes. Chemical factor appears to increase risk of psychiatric diseases. The authors suggest periodic psychiatric examination of workers engaged into hazardous chemical production for better occupational selection, early diagnosis and treatment of boundary psychic disorders.

[Clinical and psychological criteria of early detection of hazardous effects of components of synthetic hydrocarbon fuel]. / Klinicheskie i psikhologicheskie kriterii rannego vyiavleniia vrednogo deistviia komponentov sinteticheskikh uglevodorodnykh topliv.

The article shows increasing degree of psychic disorders in workers exposed to highly toxic chemicals. The symptoms develop from mild emotional disturbances in apparently healthy individuals then through premorbid psychotic manifestations to complete psychiatric syndrome of chronic occupational poisoning. The authors necessitate early diagnosis of the chronic occupational poisoning.

[Characteristics of affect in chronic intoxication by non-symmetrical dimethylhydrazine, hydrocarbons and nitroglycols]. / Osobennosti émotsional'noi sfery pri khronicheskikh intoksikatsiiakh nesimmetrichnym dimetilgidrazinom, uglevodorodami i nitroglikoliami.

The authors analyze emotional features in workers with occupational exposure to hydrazines, hydrocarbons and nitroglycols. Chronic occupational poisoning with those chemicals induce numerous emotional symptoms that are specific and varying in severity. The materials presented by authors could be interesting for occupational therapist, internist and psychiatrist for early diagnosis of chronic occupational intoxications, treatment of emotional disorders in workers and better occupational safety.

[Disease characteristics of the population on the territory of the city of Kirovo-Chepetsk]. / Kharakteristika zabolivaemosti naseleniia na territorii g. Kirovo- Chepetska.

Medical and ecologic evaluation of ecologic situation in Kirovo-Tchepetsk (Kirov region) included study of morbidity in the town and referent territories. Levels and dynamics of morbidity, prevalence, number of pathologic processes in children and other parameters could characterize the town as an ecologically unfavorable territory.