A YAC contig in 6p23 based on sequence tagged sites.

A yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) contig located in 6p23 and spanning roughly 2.5 Mb has been constructed from the content of 10 sequence tagged sites (STSs) for YAC clones in 66 yeast colonies. Nine of the STSs have been genetically mapped in CEPH families.

[Adult oligophrenia in the large psychiatric hospital].

Adult patients with mental retardation are a large group in big psychiatric hospitals. In the last years they were not enough heeded in regard of social psychiatric efforts and rehabilitation. The study shows the problems of misplacement for a big part of that group as in-patients in psychiatric hospitals, points out the necessary integration and continuous social and rehabilitative-pedagogical care.

[The treatment of epilepsies with Convulsofin].

The testing of Convulsofin carried out in 220 patients at 14 clinics over a period of six months confirms the international experience gained with valproic acid and sodium valproinate. The main field of application of Convulsofin according to the experience gained will again be the treatment of fits in generalised primary epilepsy for which it permits to carry out a monotherapy to a remarkable extent. The favourable effect of the preparation in photosensitivity could be confirmed.

[Treatment of epilepsy with clonazepam (Antelepsin)].

Clonazepam (Antelepsin) was tested on 179 patients in 8 institutions during a period of 180 days. 169 patients had been unsuccessfully treated with the usual standard medication and were additionally given Antelepsin. Typical absences and attacks of the West and Lennox syndromes yielded best to treatment with the drug, with favorable effects also being produced in cases of partial or focal epilepsy.

[Possibility of research specific utilization of clinical television setups].

The present study is intended to discuss use of video tape technics in psychiatric research in reference to method, engineering and clinical investigation. A self created variant of a clinical television system is debated. With the support of video tape methods will be realize improvements in quality of psychiatric investigation in view of procedure and determination of the results as well as reliability, objectiveness and exactitude in connection with a postgraduate continued professional training.