[Parkinson disease in neurologic general practice in Alsace-Lorraine. Characteristics and study of the treatment].

A study was performed in 220 out-patients with Parkinson's disease followed by general neurologists. The general characteristics of the patients are similar to those observed in the large epidemiological studies. The main conclusion concerns the low use of dopamine agonists.

[A study of spontaneous arousal in the newborn (author's transl)].

Awakening was studied in 15 newborn babies using polygraphic recording to monitor the EEG, eye movements, the EMG activity of muscles of the face (frontal, periorbital and jaw) and to study the respiratory and cardiac rhythms. Twenty arousals, characterized by crying or by eye opening, lasting 2 min were isolated. The two sorts of awakening could be observed in the same child.

[Sleep states and oxymetry in neonates (author's transl)].

We have performed continuous recording of cutaneous PO2 (cPO2) together with a polygraphic recording of sleep in 12 normal premature babies, 36-38 weeks of post-conceptional age. In all babies, cPO2 was significantly lower (77.2 +/- 23.

[Clinical and electrophysiological evolution of infants presenting with partial seizures before the age of two months (author's transl)].

The study was carried out on 28 children: 18 with partial seizures in the first five days of life, and among them 4 with status epilepticus; 7 had focal seizures between the first and eight week, 3 generalised tonic seizures with assymetrical EEGs. A clinical and electro-physiological study was carried out at the time of onset, 1 month later and again at 4 months. The results of the clinical and EEG examinations showed: -firstly during the seizures, the gravity of neonatal status epilepticus and of certain EEG patterns, the lack of localising value of seizures and of electroencephalographic critical discharges whereas permanent assymetry of background activity can precede by several months the appearance of clinical signs.

[The E.E.G. of herpes encephalitis in children: 3 cases including one neonate (author's transl)].

The authors report 3 cases of herpes encephalitis in children aged respectively 15 days, 12 months and 18 months. In all 3 cases E.E.