[The comparison of immobilization with isolation].

Immobilization and isolation are two of the four procedures of direct mechanical restraint allowed by the Mental Health Protection Act of August 19, 1994 (article 18). Physical restraint of mentally disordered persons may be used only when such persons wage an attempt against their own life or health, or the life or health of another person, or public safety, or when such persons violently destroy or damage surrounding objects. Both these methods may be used in similar clinical situations.

[Symptoms profile of mixed anxiety and depressive disorder].

The paper describes symptoms of mixed depressive and anxiety disorder (ICD-10). The study was carried out in three medical dispensaries: two psychiatric (42 persons) and one primary care (62 persons). Patients with or without anxiety and depressive symptoms were included.

[Psychopathology of violent behavior in mental disorders].

The frequency of violent behaviour in mental hospitals has been increasing in recent years. A number of factors may be responsible. Violent and dangerous patients are sent to hospitals, quite often against their will.

The reversibility of CT brain changes in alcohol dependence.

Control CT assessments of the brain of 15 alcohol dependent patients who showed an improvement in their clinical state were performed after a mean of 16 months. A partial decrease of the widening of cerebral sulci and the third ventrical was noticed. Also, the neuroradiological pictures of the vermis and cerebellum were seen to improve in most patients.

[Analysis of the reversibility of CT brain changes in alcohol dependent patient].

Control CT assessments of the brain of 15 alcohol dependent patients who showed an improvement in their clinical state were performed after a mean of 16 months. A partial decrease of the widening of cerebral sulci and the third ventrical was noticed. Also, the neuroradiological pictures of the vermis and cerebellum were seen to improve in most patients.