[Clinical and instrumental evaluation of the effect of tiapride in senile involutional syndrome]. / Valutazione clinica e strumentale dell'effetto della tiapride sulla sindrome involutiva senile.

Twenty elderly patients with pathological cerebral involution were treated with tiapride (200 mg/die) and investigated with psycho-clinical tests. After three months, the group of patients demonstrated a significant improvement compared to a control group treated with placebo.

[Shapiro's syndrome: description of a case and review of the literature]. / Sindrome di Shapiro: descrizione di un caso e revisione della letteratura.

The Authors report a case of spontaneous periodic hypothermia associated with agenesis of the corpus callosum (Shapiro's syndrome). The Authors outline the clinical features and physiopathology of this uncommon syndrome with a review of the literature.

Characterization of circulating T-lymphocyte subsets in alcoholic liver disease by monoclonal antibodies: correlation with the absolute lymphocyte count.

Peripheral blood T-lymphocytes from 27 patients with alcoholic liver disease were assessed on the basis of their ability to react with OKT monoclonal antibodies. A significant positive correlation was observed between the absolute numbers of T-lymphocytes and suppressor/cytotoxic T cells and the absolute lymphocyte count. These data suggest that quantitative changes in T-lymphocyte subsets in alcoholic liver disease do not necessarily reflect an imbalance in T immunoregulatory mechanisms.