[Cryosurgical method in functional stereotactic neurosurgery].

Method of cryodestruction of deep subcortical structures is used in functional stereotactic operations in patients with chronic progressing diseases of the central nervous system. The PAH device produces cooling the tissues in the target point of the brain to -70 degrees C, which allows to obtain the destruction focus with volume 0.2 or 1 cm3.

[Effect of centrally administrated substance P on the brain mesolimbic system activity in rats as measured by microdialysis].

Action of substance P on the contents of dopamine, dihydroxyphenylacetic acid and homovanillic acid in the nucleus accumbens of rats was investigated with microdialysis procedure. During 3 days, each animal daily received i.v.

[Functional stereotaxy with magnetic resonance tomographic guidance].

The paper summarizes experience with stereotactic operations by magnetic resonance imaging data by using a Russian OREOL stereotactic manipulator. It describes methods of preoperative preparation of patients by employing diagnostic magnetic resonance tomographs. A number of points of the procedure for identification and localization of deep target structures from magnetic resonance images in parkinsonism, temporal epilepsy and some mental disorders.