[The action of medichronal (glucose-glycine-formate) on the serotonin blood level in alcoholism patients]. / Deistvie medikhronala (gliukozoglitsinformiata) na soderzhanie serotonina v krovi bol'nykh alkogolizmom.

The effects of a novel antialcoholic medication medichronal on the serotonine concentration in blood of patients with second stage alcoholism was investigated. It has been discovered that remission in 75% of the patients was connected with its hyper- and hyposerotoninemic influence, depending on the initial lowered or increased serotonine content. Similarity of medichronal and unithiol effects was observed in the form of palyndromoinversion regulation of serotoninergic activity. In a portion of the patients the increased, compared to healthy persons, serotonine concentration before and after the treatment does not differ from the average values in the whole group.

[The new anti-alcohol preparation medikhronal: changes in the level of ethanol, acetaldehyde and monoamines during the treatment of alcoholism patients]. / Novyi antialkogol'nyi preparat medikhronal: izmenenie soderzhaniia étanola, atsetal'degida i monoaminov pri lechenii bol'nykh alkogolizmom.

Treating patients with stage-II alcoholism with medichronal and unithiol sharply decreases blood levels of alcohol and acetaldehyde. Medichronal restores the decreased level of norepinephrine excretion in 25% of patients and the increased level of epinephrine in 43%. The high baseline concentration of serotonin dropped in 41%, however, its level remained higher than in the controls. There was a negative correlation between the changes of ethanol concentrations and the excretion of norepinephrine. There was a direct dependence between the changes in the norepinephrine/epinephrine ratio and the serotonin concentration.

[The action of medikhronal (glucose-glycine-formate) on catecholamine excretion in alcoholics]. / Deistvie medikhronala (gliuzkozo-glitsin-formiata) na ékskretsiiu katekholaminov u bol'nykh alkogolizmom.

The application of the novel antialcoholic drug Medichronal mainly results in normalization of dyscatecholaminemias, by lowering or elevating noradrenaline or adrenaline levels. This effect is similar to that produced by unitiol that is conventionally used in nacrological care. The changes in catecholamine levels occur in various dyscatecholaminemias characterized by a high or low excretion of biogenic monoamines. Before and after therapy, in some patients, the concentrations of catecholamines do not differ from those in healthy persons.

[Outpatient stress psychotherapy of patients with alcoholism]. / Stressopsikhoterapiia bol'nykh alkogolizmom v ambulatornykh usloviiakh.

Trial of the method of stress psychotherapy developed by Dovzhenko has revealed its high efficacy: over 68% of treated patients continue the remission in a year after the treatment. The essence of the technique consists in the reaction of a stable psychological orientation toward a prolonged abstinence from alcohol by employing a complex of sequential psychotherapeutic methods and approaches materialized by means of physiogenic (stress) impacts aimed at activization of emotiogenic mechanisms of the brain.