[Attention and associative memory in patients with sequelae of ischemic stroke]

To study social and adaptation potentialities of 56 patients with a history of ischemic brain stroke, they were examined for attention and associative memory (AM). Use was made of neuropsychological techniques and phonooscillography of latent conditions of AM. The patients manifested deceleration and instability of all the time parameters of the process of attention (tempo, rate, quality, productivity, accuracy), its depletion (in hemispheric foci) and instability (in stem derangement), as well as a decrease of the level of active attention and of the capability of its switching over (especially in pathology of the left cerebral hemisphere). This evidences restricted potentialities of postinsult patients in adaptation. Examination of AM revealed not only a decline of the scope and deceleration of the time processes of its organization but also showed the dominant hemisphere to play an essential part in the retention (memory scope) and extraction (latent period) of mnemonic associations.