The addiction of ephedrine like psychostimulators and use of nimotop for its correction
Voloshina, N.P.; Levchenko, I.L.; Volganova, I.V.
Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 104(12): 51-55
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 1997-7298 PMID: 15849865 Document Number: 583672
Twenty six patients, used home-made ephedrine like psychostimulators were examined. Nervous system pathology in these cases was characterized by short (several months) period of the pathological process formation, young patient's age, absence of family psychiatric history, pronounced systemic and multilevel affection of the organism, severity of psychic defects and patients disability. Electrophysiological study revealed essential changes of neurodynamics manifesting with insufficiency of non-specific activating brain system, diencephalic stem structure dysfunction, deep structure irritation that might correspond to clinical picture of multisystem CNS lesions. An involvement of limbic reticular structures in pathological process on the background of neurophysiological immaturity was detected as well. In patients disorders of brain homeostatic mechanisms and cognitive functions were also found. Deprivation of reactivity of upper-segmental autonomic system regulation can determine rigidity and pathological adaptation of such patients. Insufficiency of activating systems of reticular formation, arrhythmia, disturbances of cognitive functions and cerebral homeostasis dictate a need for nootropics prescription for these patients. Clinical experience justifies including drug nimotop in complex treatment and rehabilitation schemes.