[Methodological aspects of pharmacological regulation of emotional stress in persons with dangerous occupations].

The significance of the emotional stress problem for persons of dangerous professions makes it necessary to search for the optimal procedure for emotional status correction. However, taking into account the specific features of military specialists' professional activity, it is highly difficult to choose a single drug. The authors apply a differential approach to solving the problem by considering the efficacy of tranquilizers, stimulants, adrenergic blocking agents, and adaptogens. The use of anxiolytics corrects an emotional response to the level which has marked adaptational sense. A combination of tranquilizers with stimulants is beneficial for the prevention or abortion of fatigue states. beta-adrenergic blockers act as stress protective agents in the cases when the implementation of highly coordinated skills is of crucial importance. By evoking physiological and biochemical changes in the body, adaptogens are involved in the elaboration of an adequate behavioral pattern and in adaptive rearrangement under the influence of unfavourable factors of the environment and activities.