[Emotional-volitional training in the combined treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

The development of placebo effect was found to be related to the psychological status and neurophysiological features of the body. This made it possible to elaborate the disadaptation hypothesis of the disease development and a total systems approach to its treatment, characterized by the necessity of conducting both conventional (aimed at suppression of the autoimmune process and inflammation) and activation therapy. The method of emotional volitional training (EVT) designed by the authors is advanced as one of the components of the activation therapy lying in the use of music therapy, auto- and heteropsychic actions together with application of an optimal variety of group physical training.

[Characteristics of memory in MRL/1 mice and the effect of thymic peptides].

By means of methods of active and passive getting rid of electrical-pain irritation we showed that in mice MRL/1--the model of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)--as compared with CBA (control) the process of forming a developed habit engram (DHE) was slowed down and its keeping was impaired. Thymic peptides (thymalin--0.2 mlg/mice intraperitoneally) suppressed the process of forming DHE irrespective of mice line and improved the process of its consolidation and keeping especially in mice MRL/1.