Statistical association criteria in forensic psychiatry-a criminological evaluation of casuistry.

PURPOSE: Identification of potential shared primary psychoprophylaxis and crime prevention is measured by analyzing the rate of commitments for patients-subjects to forensic examination. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The statistic trial is a retrospective, document-based study. The statistical lot consists of 770 initial examination reports performed and completed during the whole year 2007, primarily analyzed in order to summarize the data within the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, Bucharest, Romania (INML), with one of the group variables being 'particularities of the psychiatric patient history', containing the items 'forensic onset', 'commitments within the last year prior to the examination' and 'absence of commitments within the last year prior to the examination'. The method used was the Kendall bivariate correlation. For this study, the authors separately analyze only the two items regarding commitments by other correlation alternatives and by modern, elaborate statistical analyses, i.e. recording of the standard case study variables, Kendall bivariate correlation, cross tabulation, factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis. RESULTS: The results are varied, from theoretically presumed clinical nosography (such as schizophrenia or manic depression), to non-presumed (conduct disorders) or unexpected behavioral acts, and therefore difficult to interpret. CONCLUSIONS: One took into consideration the features of the batch as well as the results of the previous standard correlation of the whole statistical lot. The authors emphasize the role of medical security measures that are actually applied in the therapeutic management in general and in risk and second offence management in particular, as well as the role of forensic psychiatric examinations in the detection of certain aspects related to the monitoring of mental patients.

[150 years since the birth of Thomas Ionescu (1860-1926)]. / Thoma Ionescu (1860-1926): 150 de ani de la mastere.

One of the most important surgeons of the 1900 period was the Romanian-born Thomas Jonnesco. He became a surgeon in Paris (1885-1890) under the guidance of D.M. Bourneville and J. Peyrot (Bicatre), P. Berger (Tenon), A. Le Dentu (St. Louis) and A. Verneuil (Pitié-Salpétrire). In 1894, he gained at the Paris Faculty of Medicine the title of professor of anatomy. In the same year he was selected by the professors Poirier, Charpy and Nicolas to be their collaborator in a treatise of anatomy, published in 1894. In 1895, he returned to Bucharest to lead the Institute of Topographic Anatomy and Experimental Surgery, especially created for him. He also accepted the Chair of the Clinical Surgery of Coltzea Hospital in Bucharest. In 1896 he founded in Paris the French periodical "Archives des Sciences Medicales'". Jonnesco was a prolific surgeon in the field of experimental surgery, especially cervical sympathectomy, general spinal anaesthesia but also in surgical oncology and genito-urinary field. He also drew clinical correlations on surgical techniques of gastrectomy for cancer, on total abdominal genital ablation as treatment for septic conditions of the uterus and the adnexa or on the large abdominal hysterectomy with complete ilio-lumbo-pelvic lymph node dissection in uterine cancer, which refined Wertheim's hysterectomy method. Thomas Jonnesco is now considered the founder of the modem Romanian school of

Georges Marinesco and the early research in neuropathology.

OBJECTIVE: To present the scientific contributions of Georges Marinesco (1863-1938) and place his achievements within the context of early neuropathology research. BACKGROUND: Neuropathology is a relatively recent medical field, its origins dating to the late 19th century. RESULTS: One of the most important neuroscientists of that period was the Romanian-born Georges Marinesco. He became a neurologist under Charcot's guidance at the Salpêtrière Hospital, in Paris. In 1892, Paul Blocq and Marinesco gave a first account of senile plaques, having used their pathologic skills in the examination of nine deceased epileptic patients. They did not, however, relate the plaques to dementia. Marinesco made discoveries in neuropathology which he described from a histopathologic perspective, and introduced new medical terms such as neuronophagia, chromatolysis, and medullomyoblastoma. He also drew correlations between clinical neurologic findings and morphology, for example in congenital cerebellar ataxia, syringomyelia, and parkinsonism. From 1899 he used cinematography as a medical research tool. CONCLUSION: Marinesco was a prolific researcher in the field of neuropathology, especially neurodegeneration but also in clinical neurology. He is now considered the founder of the modern Romanian school of neurology.