[Effect of an acute pharmacological test and a course of treatment with nifedipine on cerebral hemodynamic indices and information processing efficiency in hypertension patients].

Acute nifedipine tests and courses of nifedipine treatment were conducted in 30 patients with essential hypertension. The response of arterial blood pressure and cerebral hemodynamics to the acute test coincided with the results of a treatment course. The hypotensive effect, associated with nifedipine treatment, is combined with favorable cerebral hemodynamic changes and an increase in mental performance of hypertensive patients. Nifedipine treatment as an independent therapy is primarily indicated to patients showing spastic rheoencephalographic changes.