[Elder abuse and emergency care units].

Elder abuse could present with various aspects: physical, psychological, sexual aggression, embezzlement, neglect or self-neglect. According to epidemiological studies, between two and ten percent of the elderly population are concerned, but only few cases are reported, but this rate will likely increase with the growing elderly population. This paper highlights the risk factors for elder abuse.

Specific genetic disorders and autism: clinical contribution towards their identification.

Autism is a heterogeneous disorder that can reveal a specific genetic disease. This paper describes several genetic diseases consistently associated with autism (fragile X, tuberous sclerosis, Angelman syndrome, duplication of 15q11-q13, Down syndrome, San Filippo syndrome, MECP2 related disorders, phenylketonuria, Smith-Magenis syndrome, 22q13 deletion, adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency, Cohen syndrome, and Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome) and proposes a consensual and economic diagnostic strategy to help practitioners to identify them. A rigorous initial clinical screening is presented to avoid unnecessary laboratory and imaging studies.

[Hysteria and aging].

In the elderly, the manifestations of hysteria can take uncommon aspects such as durable conversion disorders for which a diagnosis is difficult in the context of polypathology, dissociative symptoms looking like some dementia syndromes, noisy psychiatric symptomatology with, in particular, severe depressive episodes or hallucinations. These disorders can appear without a context of histrionic personality. The evolution of hysterical disorders during life is not well known.