The effectiveness of immersive virtual reality in physical recovery of stroke patients: A systematic review.

Background: Over the past few years, technological innovations have been increasingly employed to augment the rehabilitation of stroke patients. Virtual reality (VR) has gained attention through its ability to deliver a customized training session and to increase patients' engagement. Virtual reality rehabilitation programs allow the patient to perform a therapeutic program tailored to his/her needs while interacting with a computer-simulated environment.

[The adequacy of a new method for assessing the vestibular protective effect of biologically active substances].

The effects of some neuropsychotropic agents on changes in pain sensitivity in albino male rats under the action of complex accelerations were investigated. It was found that administration of drugs with the antimotion-sickness activity--scopolamine, phenamine, phenibut prevented the development of analgesia with the opiate component, the use of low-effective and non-effective with respect to suppression of vestibulo-vegetative disturbances agents--diazepam, ephedrine, haloperidol failed to exert such an effect.

[Antiepileptic drugs in the combined medicinal prevention of motion sickness].

Different antiepileptic drugs were tested as ingredients of various combinations for the prophylaxis and therapy of motion sickness. The combinations included diphenine, depakene, diazepam, clonazepam, pantogam and pyracetam. The best antimotion effect was recorded when a combination of diphenine and pantogam was used.

[Pharmacological correction of central nervous system function in exposure to Coriolis acceleration].

Healthy volunteers with a low vestibular tolerance were exposed to Coriolis acceleration. Potassium orotate, pyracetame and riboxine were used as prophylactic measures against disorders in the function of the vestibular apparatus and higher compartments of the higher nervous system. The central nervous function was assessed with respect to the spectral power of electroencephalograms, short-term memory and mental performance.

[Neuropharmacology of stress analgesia].

Painful and non-painful stresses have a different line of action on analgetic activity of phentanyl. Hyperalgetic action of immobilization stress is supposed to be linked with impairment of the functioning of the thalamocortical serotonin-sensitive system that gets activated before the development of maximal analgesia in non-stressed cats. Droperidol reduces the antinociceptive action of painful stress.