[Psychological, psychiatric and neurological aspects of COVID-19].

Objective: To analyze neurological, psychological and psychiatric aspects of COVID-19, as well as to study the current state of the problem.

Material And Methods: The study included 103 patients with COVID-19. The main research method was clinical/psychopathological.

Melatonin: Manager of psychosomatic and metabolic disorders in polymorbid cardiovascular pathology.

Objectives: To investigate the relationship between changes in circadian patterns of melatonin and clinical manifestations of polymorbid cardiovascular pathology (PCVP) in young men and to analyze the effectiveness of their complex treatment.

Materials And Methods: We made the immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis of epiphysis tissues from autopsies of 25 men aged 32-44 with PCVP and metabolic syndrome (MS) who had died as a result of ischemic cardiomyopathy (IC) and 25 persons after the car accident as a control group. Then, 93 young men aged 35-44 with PCVP, metabolic syndrome, and depressive spectrum disorders (DSD) were divided into three groups: (1) standard therapy; (2) standard therapy and psychotherapy sessions; (3) standard therapy in combination with psychotherapeutic and psychophysiological visual and auditory correction sessions.

[Some psychiatric and neurological aspects of the asymptomatic and mild course of COVID-19].

Objective: To study neurological and mental disorders associated with the inapparent and mild course of COVID-19.

Material And Methods: The study included 50 patients (mean age 35.2±11.

[Possibilities of using Mexidol in the complex therapy of mental disorders].

A review of the current literature on the possible use of mexidol (ethylmethylhydroxypyridine succinate) in the treatment of mental (including addictive) disorders is conducted. The possibility of its use to reduce negative psychopathological symptoms, neurocognitive deficit, manifestations of the antipsychotic syndrome (including its extrapyramidal disorders) in antipsychotic treatment of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and insomnia disorders in the complex therapy of borderline mental disorders has been shown. The potential of mexidol in the treatment of addictive pathology, as well as the effects of intoxication caused by alcohol and other psychoactive (including narcotic) substances, deserves special attention.

[Characteristics of postoperative cerebral dysfunction depending on the type and position of the implanted prosthetic heart valve].

Aim: To study the prevalence and structure of postoperative cerebral dysfunction depending on the type and position of the implanted prosthetic heart valve in patients who underwent surgery for the acquired heart valve disease.

Material And Methods: The study included 115 patients (70 men and 45 women; 64 [56; 72] years old), who underwent elective replacement or repair surgery for the acquired heart valve disease.

Results And Conclusion: The postoperative cerebral dysfunction was diagnosed in 40.