Impaired non-verbal emotion processing in Pathological Gamblers.

Impaired perception of emotion in others has been described and confirmed in addictions with substances, but no such data exists regarding addictions without substances. As it has been hypothesized that toxic effect of substances on the brain was responsible for the impairments described, studying addictions without substances could be of interest to confirm this hypothesis. Twenty-two male pathological gamblers were compared to 22 male healthy controls matched for age and education level on non-verbal emotion perception tasks including faces, voices, and musical excerpts.

Left chylothorax complicating a translumbar aortography.

The authors report a case of left chylothorax after a translumbar aortography, successfully managed by conservative means. As far as they known 16 similar cases are described. They review the literature on this subject.