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Mental and Autonomic Impairments in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Their Correction with Color and Rhythm Therapy

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The aim of the present work was to develop a method for color and rhythm therapy (CRT) for correction of psychoautonomic impairments in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. This method was used in 62 children aged 7–16 years with signs of this illness who were investigated neurologically with additional psychometric assessment of endogenous and situational anxiety (Spielberger–Khanin test), stress resistance, communicative ability (St. Petersburg V. M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute Scale), and autonomic disorders (Vein questionnaire). Color and rhythm therapy was performed using a Russian Tsvetoritm [Translator’s note: literally, Color-Rhythm] apparatus to use light of defined wavelengths for stimulation. This treatment was found to be quite effective in correcting psychoautonomic impairments, depending on the nature of emotional disorders, the characteristics of the influences of individual light stimuli (red, yellow, and blue colors), and the sequence and rhythm of their presentation; selection of an automatic operating regime was found to be optimal.

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  1. V. I. Razumovskii Saratov State Medical University and Trima Company, Saratov, Russia

    N. Yu. Filina, N. V. Bolotova, Yu. M. Raigorodskii & A. A. Luchenkov

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Translated from Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova, Vol. 112, No. 8, Iss. I, pp. 39–43, August, 2012.

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Filina, N.Y., Bolotova, N.V., Raigorodskii, Y.M. et al. Mental and Autonomic Impairments in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Their Correction with Color and Rhythm Therapy. Neurosci Behav Physi 43, 1107–1112 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-013-9857-2

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