[Parkinson's disease and mental deterioration. Apropos of 30 cases].

The influence of Parkinson illness on intellectual faculties is appreciated in different ways. The existence of a real parkinson dementia is contested by some who see in the intellectual impoverishment of these patients a simple decline in efficiency. This is often partial and linked to neurological consequences which are not always taken into account by psychometric tests.

[Acute psychoses and mood disorders in Parkinson disease. Role of antiparkinson therapy].

L-DOPA has progressively replaced atropinic substances in the treatment of the Parkinson's disease but its superiority is not evident in all domains. The same as these substances, it can occasion a secondary psychical pathology essentially presented by affective disorders and psychotic phenomena. The proposed study lays on the comparison between two parkinsonian groups, one undergoing a dopaminergic treatment the other one not.

[Events in the lives of 120 chronic alcoholics. Preliminary study].

We have applied, with necessary modifications, life-events methodology, to the study of nature and temporal distribution of life-events occurring in 120 chronic alcoholics. Total number and distribution of life events undergo some variations with age, sex, ethnic group and socio-professional level in chronic alcoholics. We have specially analysed the temporal curve of life events before, during and after the year of beginning alcohol abuse.

[Personality of the parkinsonian. Clinical and psychometric approach].

The personality of patients suffering from Parkinson's disease has been considered as the basis of a psychosomatic theory or more simply as a form of reaction. Between these two extremes the controversy continues and is modified by the use of dopaminergic agents. In this study, 30 patients suffering from parkinson's disease undergo a psychological examination and a M.

Adult onset centronuclear myopathy with peripheral nerve involvement.

A case of centronuclear myopathy is presented, showing a rapid course in a 47-year-old male. Clinical and muscular findings were consistent with the diagnosis of centronuclear myopathy. On nerve biopsy, there was evidence of a regenerative process.

[Aetiological and evolutive Particulars of parinaud's syndrome. Report of 19 cases (author's transl)].

After a summary of general specifications of Parinaud's syndrome the authors made a critical study according to 19 personal observations. They point to the aetiological interest of evolutive development of this syndrome when undergoing treatment for tumour and during the vascular malformations when fluctuations are an interesting clinical presumptive evidence.

[Study of the action of sultopride on psychomotor agitation. Apropos of 31 cases].

A study of sultopride, a new derivative of the substituted anisamides, has shown that this neuroleptic drug reduces markedly and rapidly psychomotor agitation, especially its aggressive component. It also has an action on hallucinations. Its indications, in order of efficacy, are states of acute agitation, psychotic states during the active phase, acute manifestations of alcoholism and behaviour disorders such as expansivity, impulsivity and agressivity.

[Post emotional syndromes (author's transl)].

On the basis of ten clinical cases of post emotional shock, the following aspects are discussed: the causal emotion and its characteristics, its psychological repercussions and the mechanisms involvent, the clinical patterns observed, both somatic and psychic, and their interpretation. Attention is called to the consequences of such emotions from the forensic view-point and the need to ascertain and specify the nature and intensity of the emotional trauma and the actual state of anxiety. Emphasis is laid on the difficulty of making expert appraisals and fixing equitable compensations, as experts differ and their approaches to the problem and also because of the functional character of sequela and their varying degree of severity.

[Tumors of the glomus jugulare].

Tumours of the glomus jugulare always raise diagnostic and therapeutic problems. We decided to review the pathology and clinical findings whilst reporting a typical case found on our neurology unit. After a brief review of the embryology, anatomy and histology of the glomus jugulare, the authors report the case of a patient who presented a recurrent intracranial form with involvement of several cranial nerves, together with associated involvement of the carotid glomus.