[Functional state of non-specific brain systems in dystonia musculorum deformans]

The paper deals with the results of an electropolygraphical study of night-sleep structure, as well as a clinical and experimental-psychological study of 27 patients with deforming muscular dystony. The quantitative and qualitative characteristics of functional shifts in different links of the nonspecific system in the known clinical forms and at different stages of the disease are given. The data were obtained with the aid of correlational statistical methods and were used for a clinico-physiological analysis of the syndrome of deforming muscular dystony. It is demonstrated that changes of a functional state of the nonspecific brain systems correlate with motor, emotional-personal vegetative and electroencephalographical manifestations of deforming muscular dystony.