[Relatives of psychotic patients: effect of group discussions and group education].

Forty relatives of young psychotic patients participated in psychoeducative groups for eight sessions and filled in questionnaires at the first and the last session. They were questioned about user satisfaction, degree of strain, knowledge, attitude and behaviour in relation to mental illness, and the emotional climate in the family. The emotional climate in the family was investigated by means of the Family Questionnaire and divided in subscales, measuring criticism and over-involvement.

Disparity in regional cerebral blood flow during electrically induced seizure.

This is a presentation of 2 cases in which the intraictal regional cerebral blood flow distribution was measured with the 99mTc-HMPAO single photon emission computerized tomography technique during an electrically induced seizure. Although the seizure was verified as generalized on electroencephalography, the regional neuronal activity expressed as rCBF unexpectedly was markedly asymmetrical in one of the cases. These findings demonstrated that the 99mTc-HMPAO technique makes it possible to discriminate intraictal variation in cortical and subcortical activation between the hemispheres during electroencephalography-verified generalized seizures.