[Comparative study of visual evoked potentials and magnetic resonance imaging in multiple sclerosis].

19 patients with clinically definite, probable or possible multiple sclerosis were examined by means of visual evoked potentials and magnetic resonance imaging. The patients were classified in three groups according to the criteria of Mac Alpine. 11 patients had definite multiple sclerosis: 8 of these patients, who had visual disorders evoking an optic neuropathy, had abnormal visual evoked potentials and 7 of these 8 patients had a pathological magnetic resonance imaging.

[Tiapride in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders in the elderly (author's transl)].

One hundred patients, aged between 60 and 92 years, were treated with tiapride for neurological disorders (abnormal movements, buccofacial dyskinesias, dopa therapy complications, ballism, eyelid tics, senile tremor, post-traumatic headache, delirium tremens), psychiatric disorders with more or less marked agitation and of various types (hysteria, depression, mood disturbances, hypochondria, delusions, hallucinations), or for mental deficiency, senile dementia, or arteriopathic dementia. Results were excellent, being satisfactory in 70 p. cent, and even more marked in some groups.

[Traditional concept of epilepsy in Dogon people (author's transl)].

Dogon people has a very particular culture which has been rather thoroughly studied in the last fifty years. Dogons do know the successive aspects of generalized grand mal epilepsy and its differences with sacred fits and other magic behaviours. Epilepsy is believed to be of magic origin.