[Psychoautonomic disorders in painful vertebrogenic syndromes]

Compression spectral analysis of EEG and electropolygraphic registration (EMG, SGR, ECG), psychological and clinical investigations were used to examine patients with right and left vertebrogenic pain syndrome, patients with psychogenic neurotic syndrome and control group of healthy subjects. It was found that vertebrogenic syndrome frequently combined with psychogenic disorders. The latter were more evident in the left-side syndromes, occurred in more severe EEG abnormality. The role of the right hemisphere in the genesis of the above disorders in the patients and the problem of the center-periphery relations in pain vertebrogenic syndromes are discussed.