[Attitude of general practitioners faced to schizophrenia].

Background: The chronic character of schizophrenia, the suffering that it generates, its triple social and human economic cost, make of it a major stake of public health. The general practitioners are the first actors in the tracking of onset schizophrenia and the follow-up of this chronic pathology.

Aim: To study knowledge, the attitudes and the practices of the general practitioners faced to schizophrenia.

[Clinical and evolutionary characteristics of bipolar disorder according to the polarity of the first episode].

Background: The polarity of the inaugural episode seems to determine the clinical and evolutionary profile of bipolar disorder.

Aim: To study the clinical and evolutionary characteristics bipolar disorder according to the polarity of the first episode.

Methods: We undertook a retrospective, descriptive and comparative study including all the patients reached of bipolar disorder I and II (DSM IV TR) who were hospitalized between January 1 2000 and December 31 2006.

[Offensive and criminal acts in schizophrenia: comparative study according to gender].

Background: Schizophrenia does not involve the same risk of violence among women than men. The offensive and criminal acts were less studied in women.

Aims: To raise the sex ratio of the criminal acts and to seek the characteristics and the risk factors of this female violence.

Acute psychosis under efavirenz in a HIV patient.

Background: Efavirenz is one of the most prescribed HIV drugs, it can have number of psychiatric adverse effects varying from sleeping disorders to psychotic symptoms.

Aim: Through a case-report study we tried to evaluate the imputability of an acute psychosis to Efavirenz.

Case: Mr.