Results of gamma-knife radiosurgery treatment for intracranial metastases of renal-cell cancer and prognostic factors influencing on the survival (joint study of three Eastern European Centers).

Gamma-Knife radiosurgery treatment for intracranial metastases of renal-cell cancer results are presented. Treatments were made in 3 Eastern European Centers: in Prague, Moscow and St. Petersburg from 2000 to 2011.

[Methodological approaches to investigation of autonomic nervous system functions in young children].

Techniques for investigation of a functional condition of autonomic nervous system in young children--anamnesis questionnaire, a list of basic vegetative disorders and screening table for vegetative tonus evaluation--were elaborated. These tools have been tested in a longitudinal study of more than 200 children, aged 3 months to 5 years, with various psychic disorders, 143 being related to high-risk group for schizophrenia, and were proved to be higher informative, simpler and more convenient for practitioners.

[Clinical computed tomographic correlations in children from a group at high risk for schizophrenia].

Computed tomography (CT) was performed in 189 individuals: in 44 children of schizophrenic parents (high risk group, HRG), in 39 parents with schizophrenia or with schizophrenic disturbance, in 56 children with schizophrenia, in 50 children with consequences of early organic damages of central nervous system (mental retardation syndrome and generalized tic syndrome). The frequency of CT changes was equal in the mentioned groups but their character was quite different. The widening of brain's liquor system (89.