[A role of cerebrovascular diseases in the progression of multiple sclerosis].

Objective: To identify the association between cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) and multiple sclerosis (MS) among patients over 50 years old in two independent populations of Moscow and Tyumen.

Material And Methods: The study included 94 patients with MS in combination with CVD (main group) and 90 age-and sex-matched patients with MS without a vascular history (comparison group). An analysis of parameters such as disease duration, EDSS at different time points, disease progression index, duration of first remission in each population separately and in both populations together was carried out.

Rasch analysis and ordinal-to-interval conversion tables for the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale.

This study conducted Rasch analysis of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale using responses of 400 participants to produce ordinal-to-interval conversion algorithms not available to date. Minor modifications such as removing the non-fitting item 5 and combining subscales items into super-items were necessary to achieve the best model fit ((15) = 20.28,  = 0.

[Functional structure and cerebrovascular circulation of the vestibulo-ocular formations of the brain stem of the human cerebrum].

This work is dedicated to the study of anatomo-physiological peculiarities of the construction and cerebrovascular circulation of the vestibulo-ocular formations of the brain stem of the human cerebrum. The analysis of anatomo-physiological data enable to convince that the arches of the vertical and horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflexes include many structures of the brain stem of the human cerebrum, which are located along its longitude from the superior colliculi to caudal sections of brain stem. There is an existence of separate mechanisms of horizontal and vertical vestibulo-ocular interaction.

[Vertical vestibuloocular reflexes in affection of central parts of vestibular system (communication III)].

Vertical vestibuloocular reflexes (VVOR) were examined in 45 patients with multiple sclerosis. It is proposed to study VVOR basing on stimulation of the vertical semicircular labirynthine canals with active sagittal nodding of the head. Central lesion of the vestibular system is characterized by VVOR hyperreactivity, total failure of VVOR suppression by glance, two types of VVOR domination (typical--up and atypical--down), interocular asymmetry (dissociated nystagmus).