[Mental disorders and cerebral sensomotor asymmetry in patients with epilepsy].

A neurological, psychiatric and instrumental (electroencephalography, computer tomography, etc.) study of 84 patients was aimed at assessing an effect of sensomotor asymmetry profile and side of the epileptic focus on semiotics of seizures and psychopathological presentations in partial epilepsy. A data analysis included 111 variables, i.

Handedness, alexithymia, and focus laterality as risk factors for psychiatric comorbidity in patients with epilepsy.

The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of seizure lateralization, handedness, and alexithymia on psychopathology in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. One hundred five patients were included in the study. The Hopkins Symptom Checklist--90 (SCL-90) and Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-26) were used for psychopathological assessment of patients.

[Perioperative analgesia during total hip replacement].

Total hip replacement has become a widespread surgical intervention, so adequate analgesia substantially improves the results of treatment. This paper reviews the literature on the choice of a perioperative analgesia mode during hip arthroplasty. There is no uniform approach to preoperative analgesia, but one can identify the basic lines of its development: the introduction of effective and safe regional procedures, the minimum use of opioid analgesics, a gradual transition of intraoperative to postoperative analgesia, the possibility of the earliest activation of a patient, the capacity of a analgesic procedure to reduce perioperative blood loss, the incidence of thromboembolic and other complications, and the cost of treatment.

[Structural and functional characteristics of recovery of the severed sciatic nerve exposed to pulsed magnetic field].

In rabbit experiments after cross-cutting the sciatic nerve with its subsequent perineural suture, the authors studied whether the structure of injured nerve fibers could be recovered on exposure to an impulse magnetic field (IMF) of high intensity (1.2 T). On exposure to IMF, the processes of nerve fiber myelinization were found to proceed much more rapidly in the rabbits operated on and the area of a connective tissue scar showed a more direct growth of nerve fibers of the center to the periphery.

[The action of a pulsed magnetic field on the electrical resistance of the skin].

The skin of 32 rabbits and 10 patients (7 males and 3 females aged 32-48) was exposed to impulse magnetic field (IMF) with intensity of 1.0-1.5 T and frequency of 45 paired impulses a minute.