[The cerebral mechanisms of the autonomic disorders in vibration disease]

The status of the nonspecific brain systems was analyzed in 72 miners. Of these, 41, were in the premorbid stage and 31 were with the initial manifestations of vibration disease that occurred as a result of exposure to local vibration. The miners demonstrated dysfunction of the limbic-reticular complex in the form of concomitant vegetative, psychoemotional and nonspecific activation shifts. The syndrome of vegetative dystonia characteristic of the early (preclinical and manifest) nonspecific manifestations of vibration disease was a clinical reflection of cerebral dysfunction.