EPISIOTOMY AS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF MODERN PERINIOLOGY

Objective: the study is to determine the effectiveness of EEG-biofeedback training on β-rhythm for correcting voluntary attention in children 6 – 8 years of age with the consequences of perinatal CNS lesions of hypoxic-ischemic genesis. Materials and methods: a total of 120 children aged 6 – 8 years who included 30 children with cerebrastenic syndrome (I group) were examined; 58 children with hyperactivity and attention deficit syndrome (II group); 32 children with cerebral palsy, spastic diplegia (III group). EEG-biofeedback training on β-rhythm correction was carried out in an amount of 15 sessions lasting 20 – 30 minutes on the Kinesis machine (Neurot, Russia). Before and after the biofeedback therapy, a psychodiagnostic evaluation of the functions of voluntary attention on the Toulouse-Pieron scale was carried out (in the adaptation of LA Yasyukova, 2001). EEG recording was performed on an EEG 21/26 encephalograph Encephalan-131-03, modification 10 (Manufacturer: NPKF Medikom MTD, Russia). For statistical analysis of the obtained indicators before and after treatment, the significance criterion was used to compare the two proportions (fractions) under the assumption that the variables are distributed according to the normal law (package STATISTICS 6.0). Results: the effectiveness of EEG-biofeedback training on β-rhythm correction was revealed, as evidenced by a significant decrease in the number of children with isolated types of attention disorders in all groups of patients as well as with mixed disorders in the II group. Conclusion: аctivation of cortical processes, increasing the level of attention, memory and cognitive abilities of the psyche, when EEG-biofeedback training is included in the therapy complex, depend on the nature and severity of central nervous system lesions in children with various nosological forms of neurological pathology, which requires rethinking of therapeutic complex methods of correction and selection of personalized biofeedback training protocols, taking into account data on various types of metabolic and neurophysiological abnormalities in the head in children with different nosological forms of neurological disorders.

The Effect of Canned Products on Human Body

The use of canned products has become one of the defining characteristics of modern life. Canning is a method of preserving food by first sealing it in air-tight jars, cans or pouches, and then heating it to a temperature that destroys contaminating microorganisms that can either be of health or spoilage concern because of the danger posed by several spore-forming thermo-resistant microorganisms, such as Clostridium botulinum (the causative agent of botulism). Bisphenol A (BPA) is constantly discharged at trace levels in food packed in metal cans with PVC lining. BPA is a known endocrine or hormone disruptor and is implicated in diseases ranging from infertility, obesity, breast and prostate cancer, to diabetics, thyroid malfunction and attention deficit syndrome. This represents a cause for concern because of potential effects of Bisphenol A to human health. This research presents the report on the effect of BPA on human and possible way to reduce it.

The Absent Cause of World Literature

The resurgence of World Literature must be seen in relation to the economization of all spheres of life. Traditional, ‘specialized’ literary criticism replicates literature's power to interpellate subjects characterized by attention. Both literature and state funded literary criticism in research and teaching are currently under siege because they are counter-hegemonic in relation to a lifeworld shaped by a global attention deficit syndrome, which is the bedrock of a hypertrophic consumerism. Recent proposals for writing histories and systematic descriptions of World Literature are complicit with this move because they champion, to the detriment of deep attention, the relevance, mobility, exchange value, and translatability of texts, successfully competing with traditional ‘painstaking’ practices of literary criticism for ever dwindling institutional resources.

EEG alpha-activity in neurotherapy of attention deficit syndrome using game biofeedback

The dynamics of the segment characteristics of alpha-rhythm and their correlation with the «behaviour» of dipole sources of alpha-band in relation to beta-stimulating neurofeedback in schoolchildren with ADHD syndrome were analyzed. Effective training results in forming of neuronal groups in alpha-band which correlate to the new dipole sources. Possible place of alpha-generating system in the mechanisms of effective neurobiofeedback is discussed.