[Memory disorders due to extreme impacts and their pharmacological correction]

Abstract

The review encompasses the author's and literary data concerning effects of various extreme impacts, i.e. SHF electromagnetic radiation, motion sickness, hypoxia, etc. on the cognitive and memorizing processes in humans and animals. Potentials for pharmacological correction, with nootropic drugs in the first place, of anamnestic disorders consequent to various extreme impacts are considered. Possible mechanisms of the protective action of pharmacological substances are analyzed.