[Psychophysiologic features of the "mastering reaction" in healthy subjects].

Laboratory study by authors' method of human reaction of overcoming on electronic adaptometer in 30 healthy women-volunteers showed that psychophysiological basis of the reaction consists in acceleration of neurophysiological prosesses in functional system of the behavioural act (particularly expressed in analyzers responsible for overcoming of the obstacle and reaching the goal) and in formation of negative emotions of motivational excitation, manifested in an increase of situational alarm level and mood deterioration.

[Application of the characteristic interval method to differential diagnosis between the depressive phase of manic-depressive psychosis and reactive depression].

Using V. S. Genes' method of characteristic intervals 112 gradations of 36 different factors were analyzed in women under 40 years of the age with diagnoses of the depressive phase of manic-depressive psychosis (50 patients) and reactive depression (38 patients).