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The article provides a systematic review on the recent applications of the infrared thermography in medicine reported by Russian and foreign researchers. Advances in IRT technology and equipment, resulted in significant improvement of thermo-images quality and opened new opportunities for the practical application. Application possibilities of infrared thermography in diagnostics and treatment of diseases in different branches of medicine including traumatology and orthopedics, sport medicine, therapy and endocrinology, neurology, neonatology, diagnosis of vessels disorders and oncology are demonstrated in the article. The description of advantages (such as noninvasiveness, safety, relatively low cost and the ability to reveal pathologies on early stages) and disadvantages (insufficiently automated diagnostic type, subjective interpretation of data) of this method have been made. Perspectives of its development (creation of mathematical algorithms for automatic processing of thermo- images) and its introduction in to clinical practice have been analyzed. The use of consistent autoprograms for the thermographic images analysis allows to avoiding subjective interpretation of thermogram data. Nowadays, automatic methods of analysis are actively developed and put into practice, in particular, achievements in development of automatic image recognition algorithms allowed to solve problems of thermal images, automate cancer diagnostics.

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The aim of the work was to fix changes of cerebral energy processes in the adaptive reactions of the human CNS in conditions of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. Methods. The energy state of the brain was analyzed in different age groups (795 people in total), constantly living in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation: children 7-10 years old, young people 18-20 years old, elderly people 60-70 years old. Cerebral energy processes were estimated according to the data of the level distribution of the direct constant potential (DC potential) by means of the five-channel hardware-software complex "Neuro-KM". Besides, the level of constant potential was tested in young people (18-20 years) arrived from India to study in the northern university. The reaction of constant potential level on local cooling was determined both in Indian students and students-northerners at the initial training. Results. It was revealed that adaptive reactions of distribution of the brain constant potential level in climate and geographical conditions of the region were characterized by unidirectionality and lack of action specificity, both in natural, and in the simulative conditions irrespective of the age, sex and northern length of service. At the same time reorganization of energy processes finds the reflection in high amplitude of DC potentials of a brain, violation of the dome principle and formation dominance of right hemisphere, both in people constantly living in these territories, and in migrants. Similar changes also happened in local cooling test. Conclusion. Changes of the cerebral energy processes reflecting adaptive reactions of CNS of the person, in particular, distribution of DC potential in a cerebral cortex can be considered as "syndrome of the adaptive surplus of cerebral energy exchange".

This paper presents data on the results of the assessment of postural balance in older women. The study was conducted using the computer-aided stabilometric complex Balance Manager with the participation of 186 women aged 60–74 years. At the time of the research, the subjects were mobile and did not use any additional support when walking. Based on the identified percentile intervals, the critical values of postural balance parameters that can be considered as indicators of the developing risk of falls were determined and recommendations for its prevention were devised. For citation: Shiryaeva T.P., Fedotov D.M., Gribanov A.V. Indicators of the Risk of Falls in Older Women. Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2021, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 226–229. DOI: 10.37482/2687-1491-Z060