[Hearing impairment in children: early diagnosis is essential].

Diagnosis of hearing impairment is possible during the first days of life. Hearing tests are noninvasive and should not be delayed when hearing loss is suspected. Among children's hearing impairments, conductive hearing loss is the most frequent; it is generally acquired and reversible.

[Language comprehension by children with profound congenital deafness after cochlear implant].

The consequences of profound deafness on oral language development in children are drastic and well-known. Modern multichannel cochlear implant (CI) has been proven to enhance speech production skills in prelingually deaf children. Speech production skills, however, are known not to be a reliable reflection of oral language competence as a whole.

Comprehension of language in congenitally deaf children with and without cochlear implants.

The consequences of profound early deafness on oral language in children are drastic. The modern cochlear implant (CI) has been shown to enhance speech production skills in prelingually deaf children. Many factors may contribute to a poor or an excellent outcome, making it difficult to compare groups of children wearing or not wearing cochlear implants.

[Spirit and madness. The Maison Blanche at Montmartre].

Dr Prost's psychiatric clinic was managed by the doctors Blanche senior and junior (Esprit and Emile), then by doctors Meuriot senior and junior during more than one century from Napoleon's First Empire until the end of the first world war (1914-1918). This clinic acquired a sound reputation and celebrity thanks to the use of new psychiatric methods and a practice open to all artists and literary elite at that time, with whom the successive owners kept friendly relationships.