[Computer tomography, electroencephalography and neurologic findings in child and adolescent psychiatric syndromes].

Computed tomographic brain scan (CT) findings in 239 inpatients seen at a child psychiatry unit were rated in terms of type, location, and severity of brain damage. The rate of abnormalities found was 42%, which is consistent with the figures reported in the literature. There was only a small overlap between abnormal CT findings and abnormal findings in the electroencephalographic (EEG) or neurological examinations.

Computed tomography of anorexia nervosa.

Computed tomographic studies were performed in patients with anorexia nervosa to confirm the observations of other authors on so-called reversible cerebral atrophy. In 21 of 23 cases a marked enlargement of the cortical sulci and the interhemispheric fissures was observed, which was reversed in a second computed tomographic study in 11 patients 4 weeks after they had reached normal weight. Psychological tests were carried out at the same time as the computed tomographic studies to correlate the changes in the brain tissue with cerebral function.

Ideomotor apraxia and aphasia: an examination of types and manifestations of apraxic symptoms.

Eighty-eight aphasic patients with the four standard syndromes as well as two control groups, 10 right-sided brain damaged patients and 10 patients without brain damage were examined for ideomotor apraxia by means of 200 tasks. The tasks required oral, arm, leg and bimanual movements, both on verbal command and on imitation. The limb movements were half meaningful, half meaningless.

Axial movements in ideomotor apraxia.

Non-symbolic axial movements were examined and compared to oral and limb movements in a group of 60 aphasic patients (15 of each major subgroup) with exclusively left-sided brain damage. The contention in the literature that axial movements are preserved in patients with ideomotor limb apraxia was not confirmed.

A disturbance in the conceptual organization of actions in patients with ideational apraxia.

Patients with ideational apraxia (i.a.) performed significantly worse than patients without i.

Ideatory apraxia in a left-handed patient with right-sided brain lesion.

A case is described of a left-handed patient with a circumscribed right-sided posterior brain lesion, who presented with a neuro-psychological syndrome of Wernicke's aphasia, ideomotor and ideatory apraxia. The aphasia and ideomotor apraxia cleared within 10 days, while ideatory apraxia persisted. Ideatory apraxia therefore was not dependent on the language disorder, nor was it related to ideomotor apraxia.

[Paraproteinaemic coma in multiple myeloma (author's transl)].

The diagnosis of paraproteinaemic coma was made in 5 out of 74 patients with plasmocytoma. Compared with the other patients these 5 showed a nearly twofold increase of total serum and CSF protein concentration, a higher percentage of plasma cells in sternal marrow and extreme hypergamma-globulinaemia in the immunoelectrophoresis. In both groups CSF and serum amino acid concentrations showed no pathological changes.

Audiovisual self-confrontation in schizophrenia.

Only rarely have the effects of audiovisual self-confrontation on psychiatric patients been investigated experimentally and there are few specific hypotheses about the precise effects. Since we hypothesized that the method could have an effect on schizophrenic ego disturbances eight items were used to investigate these disturbances in a carefully selected single case. In contrast to group comparison studies, we used a single case analysis to register subtle individual changes.

[The effectiveness of stimulation of skin receptors in the treatment of prolonged pain (author's transl)].

In two groups of 30 patients pain relief due to transcutaneous nerve stimulation was compared with a placebo, under similar external conditions. The two groups were approximately similar in age, sex, and the origin of pain. Only patients with continuous pain of the limbs or trunk were included in the investigation.