Postresuscitative Integrative Cerebral Disorders as a Sign of Encephalopathy: Experimental Study

The impact of 12-minute clinical death on congenital and acquired behaviors, the content of biogenic amines, the composition and size of neuronal populations in some regions of the albino rat brain were studied. It was shown that there were postresuscitative changes in emotional responsiveness and position-finding and explorative reactions and impairments in learning and memory processes, and decreases in physical endurance and algesthesia. These processes were associated with the changes in the levels of serotonin and noradrenalin in the frontal cortex of the brain, in those of dopamine and serotonin in the striatum, in some plasma biochemical parameters, and loss of neurons in the sector CA1 of the hippocampus and in the lateral sector of the cerebellum.