FIELD: medicine, neuroophthalmology. SUBSTANCE: one should inspect ocular fundus, determine the state of cerebral circulation due to rheoncephalography, localization of focus of maximum electric cortical activity, amplitude of alpharhythm and threshold of optic nerve's electric lability. At increase of optic nerve's lability, increased resistance in microcirculatory cerebral route by 10% and more against physiological norm, focal shift of maximum electric cortical activity from occipital area at decreased amplitude of alpha-rhythm being below 40 mcV and optic nerve's electric lability being below 30 Hz one should predict the development of optic nerve's pathology in case of close cranial trauma at high possibility for development of descending atrophy of optic nerve. EFFECT: higher accuracy of diagnostics and higher efficiency of therapeutic tactics. 1 ex
