Neuropsychiatric aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster: current state of evidences
Title: Neuropsychiatric aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster: current state of evidences
Author: Loganovsky K N
Reference: Укр. мед. часопис. (Ukrainian Medical Journal) , 6 (68) – XI/XII 2008
Keywords: Chernobyl accident, neuropsychiatric effects, ionizing radiation, brain radiosensitivity, cerebral radiation markers, State Mental Health Care System
Abstract: The neuropsychiatric aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster remain the most important medical and social problem, however their causes are at issue. There is a strong necessity to develop and implement the State Mental Health Care System for the survivors of the Chernobyl accident as well as possible in the future radiation accidents and terrorist attacks with radiologic dispersive devise (RDD or «dirty bomb»). The brain is a radiosensitive organ where its vulnerability to exposure to ionizing radiation is different: radiation brain injury is mainly localized in neocortex, cortical-limbic system and the dominant hemisphere. The neurophysiological and neuroimaging radiation markers, psychophysiological markers of prenatal irradiation and postradiation cognitive deficit are revealed.
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