[The role of neurochemical mechanisms in the pathogenesis of kinetoses and the therapeutic-prophylactic action of drugs].

Experimental and clinical data on the neurochemical and neurohumoral mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis and therapeutic and preventive effects of drugs are generalized. Literature data and the authors' own data concerning drugs used for the prevention and treatment of kinetoses are given. The possible mechanisms of their effect against motion sickness are suggested. New ideas of the means of search for substances possessing vestibuloprotective activity, and the principles of rational pharmacological correction of vestibuloautonomic disorders in motion sickness are discussed.