[Determining of suitability of military personnel of carrier profile based on an assessment of the functional state of the visual analyzer].

The article analyzes the important qualities of a professional military profile of the carrier, methodological support, aimed at evaluation, accounting professionally important qualities in the practice of professional psychological selection. It is also identified a group of professionally important qualities with the most highly predictive efficiency for the appointment of personnel for the post of operator activity profile.

[Status of mental health of men called up for military service].

Authors analyzed psychic sick rate of selectees for the last 12 years according to data studying of Saint Petersburg military registration and enlistment offices obtained in 1996-2008. It has been established that it is connected with social stress phenomena in consequence of global changes occurring in society. Neurotic and personal disturbances dynamic is similar to neuropsychic instability level dynamic, revealed in selectees by specialists of occupational psychological selection of military registration and enlistment offices.

[Meteoadaptogenic properties of antihypoxic drugs].

The meteoadaptogenic properties of antihypoxic drugs (citoflavin, reamberin, hypoxen, mexidol) have been studied in climate thermobarocomplex Tabai (Japan) on a group of healthy volunteers aged 20 - 24. It is established that all these drugs produce a meteoadaptogenic effect, the degree of which depends on the environment conditions (overcooling, overheating, hypobaric hypoxia). Citoflavin optimized the functional state in both cold and hot climate as well as under hypobaric hypoxia conditions. Mexidol can be classified as an adaptogen and both menthal and physical actoprotector under overcooling or hypobaric hypoxia conditions (highlands). Hypoxen, which positively affects the psychological component of the functional state and enhances psychomotor activity, can be used for rapid adaptation to a hot climate. Reamberine significantly increases the physical component of the functional state under cold conditions and can be considered as a psychomotor enhancer and adaptogen for the regions of cold climate. Therefore, all the drugs studied (citoflavin, reamberin, hypoxen, mexidol) can be recommended as the means of activation, support, and recovery of physical and psychological efficiency under rapidly changing environment conditions.

[Functional and metabolic changes of healthy volunteers after cold exposure and administration of meteoadaptogen trekrezan].

The effect of cold exposure (-10 degrees C, air speed--2.5 m/sec, 40 minutes) on physical activity, cognitive processes and metabolic status of 75 volunteers, healthy men of 20-24, was studied in termobarocomplex Tabaj (Japan). Cold exposure reduced physical and cognitive activity, the activity of kreatine phosphokinase, superoxide dismutase, the levels of redox glutation and pyruvate. Preliminary administration of adaptogenic drug trekrezan 0.2 g prior to cold exposure normalized the indexes studied of physical activity and metabolic status. It is suggested that trekrezan can be used as a meteoadaptogenic drug for rapid and effective adaptation to cold exposure of environment.

[Comparative study of behavioral effects of cortexin and cerebrolysine upon intraventricular and intraperitoneal administration in rats].

The comparative central effects of polypeptide drugs cortexin and cerebrolysin were studied in Wistar rats after introduction into the cerebral ventriculi in a dose range from 1 mg to 10 mg and 100 mg and after intraperitoneal injections in a dose of 1 mg/kg. Both drugs produced a moderate psychostimulant action, cortexin being more effective as compared to cerebrolysin. This effect was confirmed by all methods studied, including open field, elevated plus-maze, intruder-resident, and self-stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus. It is suggested that cortexin and cerebrolysin have similar mode of action, while cortexin is more effective than cerebrolysin. A difference between the intraventricular and intraperitoneal effects of drugs was that in the first case both drugs produced a moderate anxiolytic action, while in the second case an anxiogenic effect was registered. The central anxiolytic effect of drugs is probably related to a nonspecific action of polypeptides administered via brain ventriculi.

[Meteoadaptogenic properties of peptide drugs in healthy volunteers].

The meteoadaptogenic properties of a series of drugs with peptide (cortexin, noopept, dilept) and nonpeptide (vinpotropil) structure were investigated in a climate thermobarocomplex (Tabay, Japan) on a group of healthy volunteers aged 20-24. All the studied drugs produced a meteoadaptogenic action, the extent of which depended on the environmental test conditions (overcooling, overheating, hypobaric hypoxia). Vinpotropil, optimizing a physiological component of the functional state, can be recommended as a meteoadaptogen for both cold and hot climate as well as for hypobaric hypoxia, where it improved the psychological component of the functional state. Cortexin is qualified as an adaptogen and actoprotector only for hypobaric hypoxia conditions (uplands). Noopept, affecting positively a psychological component of the functional state, can be used for rapid adaptation to both cold and hot climate. In the hot climate, noopept also enhanced the physical work capacity. Dilept mostly elevated the psychological component of the functional state and can be considered as a psychomotor enhancer and adaptogen. Therefore, all the drugs studied (vinpotropil, cortexin, noopept and dilept) can be recommended as the agents producing activation, support and recovery of the physical and psychological efficiency under rapidly changing environment conditions.