[The results and tasks of clinical research in radiation neurology]

The paper is devoted to the main stages of development of radiation clinical neurology, paying attention to the contribution of Soviet clinicians in the problem. Neurological disorders in ARS of various degrees of severity at different periods of disease as well as during irradiation at doses, not causing ARS development were described. The importance of clinicophysiological investigations for assessment of CNS function during the development of disease and its aftereffects was shown. The role of psychological investigations and studies on mental abilities of persons, exposed to acute ionizing radiation, was emphasized.