[Comparative mydriatic effect of different groups of antidepressants]. / Sravnitel'noe midriaticheskoe deistvie antidepressantov raznykh grupp.

Study of 16 antidepressants, (imipramine, amitryptyline, doxepin, dibenzepin, maprotilin, mianserin, nomifensin, trazodon, caroxazon, adepren, viloxazin, nialamid, asaphen, pyrazidol, inkasan, ftoracizin) in experiments on white mice have shown that the drugs tested may be arranged in the following way as regards the intensity of the mydriatic effect they produce: ftoracizin, amitryptyline, doxepin, imipramine, dibenzepin. Pyrazidol produces a very weak and short-lived mydriatic effect. Adepren, inkasan, caroxazon, adepren produce no mydriatic action.

[Characteristics of the pharmacological action of piracetam]. / Nekotorye osobennosti farmakologicheskogo deistviia piratsetama.

As concerns most generally accepted characteristics adopted in pharmacological studies of psychotropic drugs pyracetam is little active, has no effect on the EEG of the cortex and subcortical structures of the brain. At the same time, in a number of tests this drug displayed a well-marked influence on the central nervous system. It restrains convulsive activity provoked by application to the cerebral cortex of strychnine and penicillin solutions, reduces EEG disturbances produced by barbiturates poisoning and acute hypoxia of the brain. Pyracetam also facilitates the process of teaching in rats, improves the execution of a developed conditioned avoidance reaction, protects rats against manifestations of retrograde amnesia induced by an electric shock, applied after development of the conditioned reflex of passive avoidance.