Neurological and psychopathological syndromes as remote period effects of ionizing radiatio
Author: K.N. Loganovsky
Reference: Журн. невропатол. и психиатр. им. С.С. Корсакова. (journal of neuropathology and psychiatry named after S.S. Korsakov), 2000
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Abstract: Neurological, psychiatric and psycho-physiological (computer EEG) surveys were conducted on 100 victims of the Chernobyl disaster, in whom acute radiation syndrome (ARS) was diagnosed in 1986, 100 employees of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, who volunteered to work in the area from 1986-1987 for 5 years or more, as well as group of comparisons (control group) with 20 healthy individuals, 50 veterans of the war in Afghanistan with effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and 50 veterans with effects of PTSD and mild closed head injury. In remote period of exposure, left hemisphere cortico-limbic and diencephalic-right-brain syndromes were detected. Schizophrenia and other pathologies are observed.
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