[Anxiety disorders in private practice psychiatric out-patients: prevalence, comorbidity and burden (DELTA study)].

Few data are currently available on the prevalence and associated characteristics of anxiety disorders in psychiatric out-patients in France, in particular in the private health-care. However, this represents one of the principal systems of care for patients suffering from anxiety disorders, with a possible direct access and several types of treatments available (pharmacotherapy but also different kinds of psychotherapy). The aim of our study was to describe the prevalence of anxiety disorders in a large sample of patients consulting in the private sector, and in addition to study the comorbidity, the severity of the disorders, their consequences on quality of life and health care consumption.

[Electrocardiographic features of the athlete: what are the limits?].

The athlete's heart syndrome concerns only high level trained subjects. The classical electrocardiographic features of this syndrome are hypokinetic arrhythmia as bradycardia, low level of atrioventricular and of right bundle branch block and electrocardiographic T wave alterations. Sometimes, marked ventricular repolarisation alterations can suggest the presence of heart disease.

[Factor analysis of french translation of the Barratt impulsivity scale (BIS-10)].

Though the concept of impulsiveness is controversial, there are many attempts being made to measure this dimension. In this context, only psychometric measures are widely considered valid and are routinely in use. Barratt developed the first scale that specifically measured impulsiveness.

[The use of therapeutic isolation and confinement in psychiatry. A prospective study].

Despite recent developments in psychopharmacology and a better understanding of agitation patterns in psychiatric patients, the use of seclusion and restraint procedures remains a matter of daily practice. Little or no time is spent on its teaching in a formal way. There is almost no literature on these issues, and it has grown only since legal procedures initiated by patients, which forced practitioners to spend some time analysing these methods.

[Self-assessment questionnaire of alcoholic craving (ECCA Questionnaire: Behavior and Cognition in Relation to Alcohol: French translation and validation of the Obsessive-Compulsive Drinking Scale].

Clinical, neurobiological and neuropsychological hypotheses suggest that the dimension of alcohol craving includes the concept of both obsessive thoughts about alcohol use and compulsive behaviors toward drinking. Anton et al. (1995) developed a 14 items self-rating scale, the Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS) which includes items for assessing three dimensions: global, and the obsessive and the compulsive subdimensions.