Peculiarities of brain mechanisms of regulation of level of wakefulness and of cognitive activity in children with retardation of psychic development and in healthy children of the same age

The work opens possibilities of the of modifications of the developed at the Laboratory systemic-integrative psychophysiological approach to study of the age-related organization or of deviation from norm in formation of superslow informational-controlling brain systems participating in mechanisms of regulation of the wakefulness level and of cognitive activity in the 5–7-year old healthy children and in children of the same age group with retardation of psychic and speech development of the cerebral-organic genesis. There are disclosed peculiarities of organization of: (a) cortical-brainstem and limbic-reticular mechanisms of regulation of the level of wakefulness; (b) suprasegmentary mechanisms of autonomic, hemodynamic, and oxygen-dependent energy supply of the wakefulness level in the examined children’s contingent. There are substantiated concepts about interrelations of peculiarities of the level of actual development of emotional and cognitive spheres with age-related peculiarities or disturbances of formation of mechanisms of regulation of the wakefulness level, its autonomic and hemodynamic provision as well as of the oxygen-dependent energetic potential.