[The use of melipramine in treating patients with a depressive syndrome accompanied by motor retardation].

A study of 49 patients with the depressive syndrome and showing different motor activity indicates that melipramin treatment proved more effective during the first week of treatment. The obtained data are confirmed by results of experiments with immobilized animals.

[Psychophysiologic features of the "mastering reaction" in healthy subjects].

Laboratory study by authors' method of human reaction of overcoming on electronic adaptometer in 30 healthy women-volunteers showed that psychophysiological basis of the reaction consists in acceleration of neurophysiological prosesses in functional system of the behavioural act (particularly expressed in analyzers responsible for overcoming of the obstacle and reaching the goal) and in formation of negative emotions of motivational excitation, manifested in an increase of situational alarm level and mood deterioration.

[Various indices of mental deficiencies in patients with chronic circulatory disorders in the vertebrobasilar system].

Using clinical procedures and psychological tests, the authors studied intellectual and emotional characteristics in 75 patients with nonpsychotic forms of psychic pathology caused by chronic circulatory insufficiency in the vertebro-basilar system. Psychic disorders in such patients included asthenic, astheno-depressive and neurasthenic symptom-complexes. Their intellectual abilities were somewhat decreased and psychic activity was lowered.

[Application of the characteristic interval method to differential diagnosis between the depressive phase of manic-depressive psychosis and reactive depression].

Using V. S. Genes' method of characteristic intervals 112 gradations of 36 different factors were analyzed in women under 40 years of the age with diagnoses of the depressive phase of manic-depressive psychosis (50 patients) and reactive depression (38 patients).