[Outpatient and institutional care for the treatment of autism].

The treatment of children suffering from autism must start early and be adapted to their development. After a multi-disciplinary assessment, it encompasses three areas: therapeutic, educational and pedagogical. Provided in an outpatient clinic or day hospital, it seeks to involve the different healthcare players and the families, to offer personalised support.

[Potentializing of tricyclics and serotoninergics by thyroid hormones in resistant depressive disorders].

In response to the increase of resistant depressive disorders and in spite of improved treatments, numerous studies were conducted in the last thirty Years aiming at assessing the pre-morbid thyroid state of depressed patients resistant to well conducted tricyclic treatments. "Minimal" thyroid abnormalities were evidenced as well as central thyroid disorders which may not be detected by peripheral-i.e plasmatic- dosages.