Environ Geochem Health
June 2022
The aim of this paper is to characterize the main properties and level of pollution of sealed soils in different land use zones of the Eastern administrative district (EAD) of Moscow. In 2016-2017 overall, 47 samples were taken from 35 soil pits. The list of soil properties analyzed included actual acidity, organic carbon content, particle-size distribution, and degree of salinity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExisting behavioral, neuropsychological and functional neuroimaging data suggest that at least two major cognitive strategies are used for new word learning: fast mapping (FM) context-dependent inference and explicit encoding (EE) direct instruction. However, these distinctions remain debated at both behavioral and neurophysiological levels, not least due to confounds related to diverging experimental settings. Furthermore, the neural dynamics underpinning these two putative processes remain poorly understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova
May 2018
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of intravenous lacosamide (vimpat) in inpatients with frequent partial-onset seizures and affective and cognitive disorders.
Material And Methods: Fifteen patients were enrolled including 14 patients diagnosed with «organic personality disorder associated with epilepsy» (cryptogenic or symptomatic epilepsy with frequent partial-onset and/or secondary-generalized seizures (serial seizures in some cases) and 1 patient with a preliminary diagnosis of «organic schizophrenia-like disorder», which was changed for «organic personality disorder associated with epilepsy» after examination. Patients were treated with 2--3 antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), but no one of them received earlier lacosamide.
For the purposes of the determination of reasons for the high cancer rates in the population ofthe city of Chelyabinsk there was performed the multiple environmental assessment of the carcinogenic risk from chemicals dissolved in drinking water, food, soil, air (from stationary sources). Based on this assessment there were determined the directions for sanitary and environmental measures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova
December 2009
A group of children and adolescents with ADHD (25 boys and 9 girls), aged 6-17 years, were treated with strattera in the optimum dose (1,2 mg/day) on an outpatient basis. The assessment of treatment effectiveness showed the marked and moderately pronounced clinical effect in 78,1% patients after 3 months. The psychological study revealed a positive trend in the volume and speed of switching attention in 80% of children and the improvement of sustainability of attention - in 69%.
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