[Diagnostics and treatment of insomnia with concomitant arterial hypertension. Use of somnol as an adjuvant remedy]. / Diagnostika i lechenie insomnii pri arterial'noi gipertenzii. Primenenie Somnola kak ad'iuvantnogo sredstva.

Based upon the conception of "circular-type addiction" scientists mark out psychological (alexithimia), psychopathological (anxiety and depressive disorders), neurological (insomnia) and somatic (circulator disturbances) levels in pathogenesis of arterial hypertension. Sleep disorder have been noted to be a key symptom in phenomenology of arterial hypertension therefore it is recommended giving Somnol as an adjuvant remedy for treatment of arterial hypertension.

[Diagnostics and treatment of sleep disorders in elderly people]. / Diagnostika i lechenie narusheniia sna u lits pozhilogo voztasta.

A meta-analysis was done of the published literature concerning the modern status of the issue of sleep disturbances and of findings from the author's investigations. Data are submitted obtained in a clinical examination of 61 elderly patient in a therapeutical hospital. In the above patients, high prevalence has been revealed of different sleep disturbances. Insomnia is often a sequela of psychophysiological derangements, which fact necessitates an exhaustive differential diagnosis and choice of remedies to be used in therapy of the above disorders. An experience is described of employment of zopiclon (Somnol Grindex) to deal with sleep problems in those patients in the involutional period. It is suggested that psychiatrist services be more actively used to give the necessary advice to those patients of the cardiological profile presenting with sleep disturbances.

[Psychiatric care act of Ukraine and issues concerning reformation of the mental health protection service]. / Zakon Ukrainy o psikhiatricheskoi pomoshchi i voprosy reformirovaniia okhrany psikhicheskogo zdorov'ia.

An analysis was performed of the conception and content of a new Psychiatric Care Act by making a comparison with data from published literature and the present-day status of the mental health protection service. The main features of the crisis of psychiatry in Ukraine are characterized together with possible ways of resolving it. Main trends in reformation of the psychiatric service are identified that are to be secured by relevant acts of departmental and interdepartmental character based on law. Priority is emphasized to defence of the patients' rights and liberties together with a need for a guarantee of a highly skilled medical care to be provided for mental patients.