[The use of hyperbaric oxygenation in treating mental patients resistant to psychopharmacotherapy]. / Primenenie giperbaricheskoi oksigenatsii v lechenii rezistentnykh k psikhofarmakoterapii psikhicheski bol'nykh.

127 patients were observed: 65 schizophrenic patients and 62 patients with vascular mental disorders. The treatment by hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) was applied in such patients to overcome resistance to psychopharmacotherapy. A positive clinical effect was marked in 72.5% of cases (in 67.4% of schizophrenic patients and in 77.4% of patients with vascular diseases). The conclusion was made that HBO enabled to shorten the time of hospital treatment as well as to improve both clinical and social prognosis.

[The personality-modulated dissimulative behavior of patients with paranoid schizophrenia]. / Lichnostno-modulirovannoe dissimuliativnoe povedenie bol'nykh paranoidnoi shizofreniei.

The revealed variants dissimulation in 120 mental patients at initial stage of schizophrenia stimulated evaluation of premorbid personality changes and their significance in the formation of dissimulative tendencies. 63 patients showed reticence, 49--affective instability, 8--increased irritability and unmotivated mood changes. Comparative analysis of clinical variants of dissimulation with the aspects of personality permit to suggest their importance in formation of behaviour motives in the development of the schizophrenia process at the paranoia stage.