Lab.of neuroecology

Suvorov The following fundamental scientific results have been obtained in the department during the last 10 years:
Experimental substantiation of the biological significance of the ecological factors of environment in the process of formation of physiological functions. The ecological factors of the environment of animals of a concrete type play the paramount role in the formation of the regulatory systems of organism in the process of evolution. The evolutionary selection consolidates the ecologically conditioned and thus biologically expedient specific features of realization of the functions responsible for the survival of the concrete type in the concretely formed ecological conditions.

Development of the theory of risk for health under chronic exposure of organism to harmful factors of different nature (physical, chemical, biological) of less intensity. It has been found that biological activity of the risk factors is variable and depends on the current functional state and the level of adaptive abilities of organism. The individual prognosis with the available risk factors depends on the individual adaptive ability and sensitiveness, functional reserves, state of the homeostasis regulatory mechanisms as well as on the age, chronic diseases and genetic load. Within the frames of this theory a conception was formulated of the thresholdless action of ecological factors and the individual risk for the prognosis of medicinal consequences of exposure to ecotoxicants for the individual and the population as a whole. The methodology of assessment of the individual risk is successfully used in our country in scientific investigations in the field of ecological and industrial toxicology.

A weighty contribution was made to the theory of adaptive self-regulation of functions in the mechanisms of adaptation of organism to the conditions of environment. It was shown that in man resistance of organism to ecologically significant factors was associated with the adaptive plasticity of the nervous system and its biorhythmological characteristics. Two individual-typological groups of adaptive and minimally adaptive subjects were selected in big contingents of the examined. High prognostic value of the assessment of individual peculiarities of adaptive ability was shown. The developed techniques of prognosis were applied for the detection of risk groups, prognosis of the man's state under extreme conditions.

The devices and software made in the department are widely used and will develop in professional selection of specialists of dangerous professions, in aviation and cosmic medicine. The detection of individual-typological features of man should be considered as a fundamental approach to the development of the methodology of the early preclinical diagnosis, organization of monitoring and effective maintenance of the health level.
The theory and technology of the biological feedback or the functional biocontrol were developed. A complex of psychophysiological procedures and the corresponding equipment were made at the department allowing the development of habits of self-regulation by training of the personal regulatory mechanisms. Strict clinical evidences were obtained that the application of the adaptive biocontrol technologies in patients with ischemic heart disease, hypertension disease, neurocirculatory dystonia, bronchial asthma improved the results of complex therapy.

Last update June 2006