[The motivation for mental patients' attending industrial medical clinics].

In order to define the possibilities and approaches to the humanization and democratization of labour rehabilitation of mental patients, to reveal and consider individual requirements constituting each patient's personality, a study was made of the motives of attending the treatment and industrial shops (TIS) by them and preferable types of labour activities. Use was made of special formalized maps devised for the given study purposes. All the possible motives of attending TIS and preferable labour activities were registered in those maps as was an objective assessment of the output per man-hour.

[Evaluation of the nootropic effect of mebikar in clinical practice].

Mebicar therapy resulted in a reduction of the degree of deficient disorders of thinking in 27 of 50 patients with paranoid schizophrenia and normalization of indices of mental working capacity, attention and memory, shortening of the time of visual-motor disjunctive reaction in 50 patients with borderline states. Mebicar was shown to possess a nootropic effect which differs qualitatively from that of piracetam.