[Effect of hemosorption on changes in the concentration of neuromediators among dermatosis patients with borderline neuropsychological disorders].

The levels of catecholamines and acetylcholine were studied in the peripheral blood of 56 patients with psoriasis and neurodermitis and attendant borderline neuropsychic disorders. Hemosorption was carried out in all patients, some of them recieving psychotropic therapy prior to it. The analysis of the results showed a difference in the content of the neurotransmitters in the blood of patients with different neuropsychic disorders and also in patients with and without the psychotropic therapy.

[Features of emotional disorders in psychopathic personalities].

Emotional disorders were explored in patients with hysteric and psychoasthenic psychopathies and in those with hysteric pathocharacterologic development (a total of 154 patients) are present. Clinical and neurophysiologic research methods were employed. The results obtained suggest that an elevation in emotivity of both group patients represents the leading characteristic of pathocharacterologic disturbances playing the major role in the desadaptation of patients.

[Activity of the sympatho-adrenal system in patients with hysterical psychopathy and psychasthenia].

The paper is concerned with studies of the sympathoadrenal system activity by the indices of urine excretion of catecholamine and dofa in patients with hysterical and psychasthenic psychopathy. The disorders inherent in each of the groups are demonstrated. The patients with hysterical psychopathy show an exhaustion of all links in the catecholamine metabolism, while the patients with psychasthenical psychopathy an exhaustion of the noradrenaline link.

[A clinico-neurophysiologic study of psychasthenic psychopathies].

The authors studied 25 patients with psychasthenic psychopathy who according to the clinical picture were divided into 2 groups: psychasthenics proper and anankasts. The results of the study permitted to detect some correlations between the clinical traits and neurophysiological interconnections between the cortex and nonspecific subcortical structures. Such correlations were made on the basis of a multicomponent structure of the orientation reaction (especially the EEG reactions and SGR) to stimula of different modality and background bioelectrical activity of the brain.