[Psychoemotional changes in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis during therapy using psychological and neuropsychological methods].

Therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis in patients is complicated by their negative psychoemotional state frequently deteriorated by long inpatient stay. Enhancing the efficiency of rehabilitative measures in phthisiology requires active optimization of the patients' mental state. This problem can be solved by a package of correction measures involving psychological correction with reflex therapeutic normalization of the functional state of the cortical regions of the central nervous system in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.

[Psychosomatic characteristics of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis].

Medical and psychological studies have established that the personality of a psychosomatic patient has characteristic specific features that determine his emotional reactions and lead to psychological and physiological destructions. Searching for the specificity of psychogenesis of pulmonary tuberculosis may be guided by the V. N.

[Study of the spread of aggressive behavior in patients with new-onset pulmonary tuberculosis].

Wearisome mental stress arising from experiencing aggressive sensations in the subjectively and objectively unbearable situation may be a significant contributor to the development of a psychosomatic disorder. A hundred and twenty patients with new-onset pulmonary tuberculosis underwent a psychological study. The steady-state personality trait in these patients is hostility as overpretentiousness, susceptibility to offence, and suspiciousness.

[Crystal structures of mutant ribosomal proteins L1].

Nine mutant forms of ribosomal proteins L1 from the bacterium Thermus thermophilus and the archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii were obtained. Their crystal structures were determined and analyzed. Earlier determined structure of S179C TthL1 was also thoroughly analyzed.

[Anxiogenic and mnestic effects of corticoliberin and its analogs introduced into the brain ventriculi of rats].

The behavioral effects of native human corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and its agonists D-Glu-20 (R1) and D-Pro-5 (R2) introduced (0.01 - 1 microg) into the lateral brain ventriculi of Sprague-Dowley rats have been studied in the open field, dark - light, Y-maze, and place preference tests. The different effects of CRH and its agonists on the anxiety level and short-term memory were revealed.