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S Popa

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PubMed1991

Adolescent offspring of endogenous unipolar depressive parents and of normal parents.

Ninety-six children aged 10-17 of unipolar endogenous depressive proband parents and 96 matched control children of well parents were investigated using DSM-IIIR diagnostic criteria. Both sets of parents were also studied. Although the rate of psychopathology was significantly higher in proband than in control children, adaptive functioning as a measure of the severity of the psychopathology did not differentiate the two groups of children. Among factors related to the mental status of the children were: severity and onset under 30 years of age of the parental depression and lifelong association of parental anxiety with depression. Personality measurements performed in children showed different personality structures in proband offspring. Data on adolescent psychopathology and personality showed little evidence of a homotypic relationship with the adult affective disorders.

Adolescent↗
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Statistical study of lethal stroke.

Deceased cases with cerebral infarction and hemorrhage constituted the subjects of the present study. They were divided into two groups: 127 cases in group 1 (1954-1959) and 427 cases in group 2 (1977-1982). The purpose of the study was to compare clinical data to evidence any statistical difference between groups. No statistically significant difference was noticed, except the increase of age mean in both diagnoses due to the overall increase of age mean of the population (2.5-10 yrs).

Adult↗
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Psychomotor functioning in unipolar and bipolar affective disorders.

The performances of unipolar and bipolar depressive patients and also of a control group on motor, verbal and mental components of psychomotor functioning were clinically and psychometrically evaluated and compared at a univariate and multivariate level. The groups were similar with respect to age, sex, educational level, illness onset age and depression severity. In univariate comparisons of test-based assessments of psychomotor functions the overall tendency was towards a more pronounced retardation in unipolar depressive patients compared to bipolar ones and controls, the differences being marked on some measures and relatively small on others. Multivariate analyses using scores on 20 psychomotor variables revealed a rather good discrimination of the depressive groups, 78.57% of cases being correctly classified, with 0.80 sensitivity for unipolar patients and 0.75 specificity. Clinical evaluation of spontaneous psychomotor activity did not reveal notable differences between the two depressive groups.

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Investigations on the efficacy of two schemes of standard gammaglobulin administration in the prevention of viral hepatitis.

Prophylactic administration of standard gammaglobulin (G) to over 5,000 children led to a more than 6-fold decrease in the incidence of icteric viral hepatitis (V.H.) as compared with the control group and to the disappearance of the autumn--winter epidemic peak. A 3-fold decrease in the incidence of subclinical forms was also achieved. In another group of 5,000 children G was only given to contacts in epidemic foci; the incidence of icteric V. H. was similar to that recorded in controls, while subclinical forms were 2 times more frequent in children having received G after the infectant contact.

Adolescent↗