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Information × Registration Number 0212U002189, 0110U000240 , R & D reports Title The estimation of mental health and nervous system conditions in women-victims after Chornobyl catastrophe and explanation of measures for their improvement popup.stage_title Head Loganovskiy Kostiantin Mikolaevich, Registration Date 30-01-2012 Organization Research Centre for Radiation Medicine popup.description2 Subjects - 101 women-liquidators, 116 - evacuees, 107 - inhabitants of contaminated areas and 100 women - comparison group; there were used the investigation's results of 342 men-liquidators, 108 - evacuees, 108 - inhabitants of contaminated areas and 127 men - comparison group. Methods - clinical neuropsychiatric examination was done. Neurological assessment was done. Psychometric studies included BPRS, GHQ-28, SDS, and PTSD scales (IDA, IES). Neurophysiological studies were done using quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) with brain mapping. Goal - to estimate the mental health and nervous system conditions in women-victims after Chornobyl accident and to ground actions for their improvement. Results: In the remote period of Chornobyl accident in the structure of nervous system diseases the cerebrovascular pathology is dominated. The results of neurological assessment demonstrate brainstem and cerebella dysfunction in liquidators of consequences of Chornobyl catastrophe and micro-focal neurological symptoms in evacuees and inhabitants of contaminated areas. The mental health disorders are more severe in women-liquidators. The organic personality disorder (F07.0), other mental disorders due to brain damage and dysfunction and to physical disease (F06), dysthymia (F34.1), neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders (F40-F48) are dominated in structure of mental pathology. The results of psychometric studies demonstrate the somatic disquietness, depression, guiltiness, PTSD signs and aggressiveness in women-victims after Chornobyl accident. The localization of brain changes is: frontal-medial regulatory centers, subcortical-diencephalic structures and brain cortex in liquidators; hypothalamic-diencephalic structures in evacuees and diffuse without accurate localization in inhabitants of contaminated areas. The nervous system and mental disorders in women-victims after Chornobyl accident are polyetiological. Their genesis in liquidators commonly depends from ionizing radiation but in evacuees and inhabitants of contaminated areas - from acute and chronic stress. So, the actions for the mental health and nervous system condition improvement in women-victims after Chornobyl accident are the combination of modern pharmacotherapy, psychopharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, therapeutic physical training, physiotherapy, social readaptation and the refusal from attraction of women for the work in stress-related situations in the future. Product Description popup.authors Бомко Марія Олександрівна Чумак Станіслав Анатолійович popup.nrat_date 2020-04-02 Close