タグ「psychosomatic disorders」
Title: Psychology of the disease image in liquidators of the Chernobyl accident with psychosomatic disorders: The concept, phenomenology, characteristics of formation and correction
Author: Vishnevskaya, Valentina Petrovna
Reference: Minsk, 2004
Keywords: liquidators, psychosomatic pathology, phenomenology, characteristics of the formation, safety in emergencies
Abstract: development and validation of image of disease concept in liquidators of the Chernobyl accident with psychosomatic pathology, including the justification of its phenomenology, characteristics of the formation and targeted correction.
URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/psikhologiya-obraza-bolezni-u-uchastnikov-likvidatsii-posledstvii-avarii-na-chernobylskoi-ae
Author: Loganovsky K.N.
Reference: Fiziol Cheloveka. — 2003. — Vol. 29, № 1. — P. 122–130.
Keywords: Chernobyl, Afghanistan, PTSD, Somatosensory evoked potentials
Abstract: Participants of the Chernobyl clean-up (n = 145) teams exposed to radiation doses from 0.05 to 3.5 Gy who had for the first time complained of pathologic somatosensory sensations (ostealgic syndrome), 20 healthy subjects, and 50 veterans of the war in Afghanistan with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were examined by a neuropsychiatrist and presented with the MMPI test. Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) were recorded. Paresthesia and cenesthopathy were characteristic of the participants of the Chernobyl clean-up. Sensation disorders of the cerebral type, kinesthetic illusions, cenesthopathic hypochondriac disorders, and paroxysmal psychosensory states predominated in this group of subjects. They differed significantly from the veterans with PTSD in markedly increased scores on MMPI scales (hypochondriasis, schizophrenia, pure hypochondriasis, pure schizophrenia, emotional exclusion, and perception oddity), which closely correlated with clinical somatosensory symptoms. In clean-up workers, somatosensory disorders were significantly associated with hypochondriac and schizophrenic-like symptoms. The latencies (LPs) of main SSEP components—N20, P25, N140, P300, and N400—were increased and their amplitudes decreased in subjects exposed to radiation. Their SSEPs had significant topographical deviations in the left temporoparietal area: the contralateral LPs were increased, whereas the contralateral amplitudes of the thalamocortical N20 component and the cortical P25 component were decreased as compared to normal values. Somatosensory disorders and hypochondriac and schizophrenic symptoms were significantly correlated with changes in the SSEPs. The decrease in the N20 amplitude and increase in the P25 latency in the left temporoparietal area were dose-dependent. The results suggest cerebral rather than peripheral origin of ostealgic syndrome and other somatosensory disorders in the participants of the Chernobyl clean-up. These disorders are associated with radiation-induced dysfunction of the corticolimbic structures of the left—dominant—hemisphere. It is suggested that somatosensory disorders in patients exposed to low doses of radiation can be considered as manifestations of chronic fatigue syndrome /fibromyalgia, whereas schizoform organic brain lesions manifest themselves after exposure to a radiation dose of 0.3–0.5 Gy.
URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1022069022557#
Author: K.N. Loganovsky, A.N. Kovalenko, N.V. Denisyuk
Reference: Кровообіг та гемостаз (Circulation and hemostasis), 2010
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Abstract: Angioneurological features of chronic cerebrovascular disease, in the remote period after total body irradiation in the dose range 0,025-4,7 Sv, are confirmed. As model target, a left internal carotid artery is adopted. Etiological heterogeneity changes of cerebral hemodynamics, in the remote period after irradiation, is confirmed, at which the role of radiation, among traditional risk factors (age, somatic diseases, smoking, alcohol abuse), is shown in doses exceeding 0.3 Sv.
URL: http://library.zsmu.edu.ua/CGI/irbis64r_91_opac/cgiirbis_64.exe?LNG=&C21COM=S&I21DBN=ZSMUL&P21DBN=ZSMUL&S21FMT=infow_wh&S21ALL=(%3C.%3EA%3D%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9,%20%D0%9A.%20%D0%9D.$%3C.%3E)&Z21ID=&S21SRW=TIPVID&S21SRD=DOWN&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21CNR=20
Title: Risk factors for long-term mental and psychosomatic distress in Latvian Chernobyl liquidators
Author: J F Viel, E Curbakova, B Dzerve, M Eglite, T Zvagule, and C Vincent
Reference: Environ Health Perspect. 1997 December; 105(Suppl 6): 1539–1544.
Keywords: Risk factors, mental distress, psychosomatic disorders, Latvia, liquidators
Abstract: Epidemiologic studies on the health effects of the Chernobyl disaster have focused largely on physical health, whereas the psychological consequences have received little attention. The authors have assessed the associations of various exposure variables with mental and psychosomatic distress in a sample of 1412 Latvian liquidators drawn from the State Latvian Chernobyl Clean-up Workers Registry.
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1469928/
Title: Characteristics of psychosomatic disorders in liquidators of radiation accidents and their neuropeptide correction
Author: Sorkin, Vadim Vadimovich
Reference: St. Petersburg, 2009
Keywords: psychosomatic disorders, liquidators, radiation accidents, neuropeptide correction, Veterans of Special Risk Division (VSRD-rus. ВПОР), distant period, healing effect, peptide bioregulator, Cortexin
Abstract: The purpose of the study: the state of psychosomatic health of radiation accidents’ liquidators that were exposed to radiation during the execution – Veterans of Special Risk Division (VSRD-rus. ВПОР), and the Liquidators of the Chernobyl Accident (LCA) in the long term, and most importantly – to determine the characteristics of therapeutic effects on them of peptide bioregulator – drug Cortexin.
URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/kharakteristika-psikhosomaticheskikh-narushenii-u-likvidatorov-radiatsionnykh-avarii-i-ikh-n
