[Age-related variants of absence in epilepsy in children and adolescents].

Epilepsy consequent to traumas, neuroinfection and perinatal pathology was registered and followed up for 0.5-8 years in 82 patients. At the age of 1.

[Complex use of benzodiazepines, lithium salts and haloperidol in the treatment of obsessive movements and tics of different origin].

Seventy-two children and adolescents with obsessive movements and tics of residual-organic etiology were treated by combined application of benzodiazepins (diazepam, phenazepam), lithium carbonate and haloperidol. The nature of obsessive syndromes and tics is considered in the light of the theory of generator mechanisms of neuropathological syndromes. The use of the studied combination due to its synergic action on the structures of the pathological system elicited a good therapeutic response while using lower doses of each drug (half to two-thirds of the conventional age-specific dosage).