Clinical benefits of single vs repeated courses of mesenchymal stem cell therapy in epilepsy patients.

Purpose: Epilepsy is defined as "drug-resistant" when existing anti-epileptic drugs (AED) are found to have minimal to no effect on patient's condition. Therefore the search and testing of new treatment strategies is warranted. This study focuses on the effects of autologous mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) in drug-resistant epilepsy patients within a Phase I/II open-label registered clinical trial NCT02497443.

[EEG mapping in the evaluation of the signs of organic brain damage in patients with mental diseases].

The mapping of EEG was performed in 100 patients with neurosis-like disorders with diffuse organic changes in the brain of hydrocephalic-atrophic character on CT; in 100 patients with organic psychosis and in 50 patients with Altzheimer's type dementia. 100 normals formed a control group. Three informative EEG signs were revealed (space-frequency alpha-rhythm inversion, beta-rhythm reinforsement, alpha-regularity descendence) that allowed to differentiate brain changes in normals and patients with organic brain damage.

[Results of the prevention of stroke in high risk groups].

The authors provide the results of carrying out individual preventive measures in groups at high risk for acute disorders of brain circulation and myocardial infarction, recognized with the aid of cards for predicting the occurrence of brain strokes. A total of 7,154 workers of an automobile factory and 4,000 persons aged over 40 years attending two polyclinics of Minsk underwent examination. 8.