[The status of psychiatric expert: a controversy].

In this work the expert's status from the point of view of law, psychiatry, psychology, as well as his social, economical and financial position was discussed. The need of improvement of the expert's part in the lawsuit, and legal protection of his person were shown. The dissimilarity of the relation: the physician--the patient and the expert--the person under examination was discussed.

[Effect of delayed-action Mirenil (Polfa) on the hypothalamic function in patients with schizophrenia].

Hormonal tests--TRH, ITT and L-RH--were performed in 10 cases of paranoid schizophrenia before the paranoid deterioration and after--on average--ten months of treatment with fluphenazine depot injection. The drug did show a clear modulating effect on the mechanisms regulating secretion of gonadotrophins and prolactin --it did not effect the secretion of thyrotropin , thyroxine, triiodothyronine, cortisol, growth hormone or insulin .