[Stereotaxic thalamotomy in the combined treatment of Gilles de la Tourette's disease].

The manifestations of Tourette's disease, represent the combination of neurologic and psychopathologic symptomatology. The patients show such manifestations as tics and obsessions while both groups of symptoms are fairly resistant to conservative therapy. The authors describe a case where stereotaxic cryodestruction of the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus was applied in addition to the treatment of the patient with medicamentous agents, psychotherapy and measures of social rehabilitation.

[Affective-respiratory attacks ( clinical aspects, pathogenesis and rehabilitation)].

Altogether 700 patients suffering from epilepsy were examined. Of these, 49 patients (7%) were with a history of affective respiratory attacks (ARA) and constituted a catamnestic group. The control group included 110 patients with ARA.

[Alalic syndromes in deaf children].

Clinical and experimental psychological investigation of 92 deaf children with various forms of mental dysontogenesis made it possible to single out a clinical group of deaf children with steady speech underdevelopment due to cerebral defects of residual-organic genesis and hereditary etiology. The features of the structure of intellectual defect are shown together with changes in emotionality and personality characteristic of deaf alalics. Singling out the pathognomonic features of intellectual and affective personality spheres can meet the needs of differential diagnosis of alalic syndromes from other clinical forms of mental underdevelopment in children with inherited and early acquired deafness in order to provide an adequate medico-pedagogical++ correction of these disorders.

[Dermatoglyphic traits in the diagnosis and prognosis of epilepsy].

A total of 549 epileptic children and 162 healthy children were studied dermatoglyphically. The authors found significant dermatoglyphic differences between the control subjects and patients suffering from epilepsy with a progressive and an unprogressive course. Dermatoglyphic characteristics in the epileptic patients varied in groups with different clinical characteristics (age at the onset of the disease and the duration of the latter, the daily development of paroxysms at the same time, a tendency toward a stable course, the presence of psychic states and the resistance to therapy).