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R Volmat

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[Perphenazine enanthate. Results of a 1-year open multicenter study].

The results of a one-year, open multicenter trial of perphenazine enanthate, a sustained-release neuroleptic drug, are reported. 240 patients (62% suffering from schizophrenia) were included in the study and 144 were followed during the 12-month period. The usual adverse reactions associated with sustained-release neuroleptic drugs were observed. Total and partial BPRS ratings showed that improvement (expressed as a percentage) after 12 months' treatment was similar for systematized chronic delusions, paranoid schizophrenia and hebephrenia. However, the onset of therapeutic activity was different in these three groups of patients. Maximum therapeutic activity, as defined by the BPRS rating, was obtained within 4 months in chronic delusions whereas schizophrenia improved more progressively. Such patients therefore require prolonged treatment before the therapeutic activity of a sustained-release neuroleptic drug can be assessed.

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[Dexamethasone test: suppressors and non-suppressors, what's the difference?].

In sixty-six depressed in-patients, 20 of them showed marked resistance to suppression after dexamethasone. The authors found no difference between the two subgroups of suppressors and non suppressors, when considering the following parameters: age, sex, duration of illness, number of prior episodes, family history, intensity of depression, response to antidepressant treatment, relapses, diagnoses. Furthermore the normalization of DST after a 28 day treatment did not systematically correlate with a good clinical improvement.

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[Handwriting expression of 2 major neuroses: hysteria and obsessive disorder].

In psychopathology, an interesting approach consists of observing the essential characteristics of already recorded entities. Very few works have been devoted to the rapport existing between graphological productions, personality structure and mental illness. This work concerns the handwritings observed in hysteric patients, diagnosed as such after taking into account case history and clinical interview. Our aim is to show the essential points which characterize this particular pathological structure. The stable features of hysteria are verified in graphic items. From, movement and ordonnance of such handwritings serve as useful aides in identifying the stages of maturation of the Ego. The graphological expressions observed in patients presenting with obsessional neurosis significantly contrast, however, with those encountered in the preceding personality structure (Hy). A comparison of these two different series demonstrate the utility of this work in clinical psychiatry.

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