Child and adolescent psychiatry: mid-course corrections.

The President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry examines and assesses past Academy plans for its scientific development, educational program, service delivery, advocacy, and recruitment initiatives. The influence of governmental programs, reimbursement trends (managed care), and over-sight and review mechanisms are described. The Academy's future medical agenda, public policy efforts, and research priorities are noted.

Research careers in child psychiatry: an update on five NIMH workshops.

To foster research in child psychiatry, the National Institute of Mental Health and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry sponsored three workshops in 1981-82 and two others in 1984. Overall, 60 trainees and several senior researchers participated. A 30-month follow-up of the careers of 34 residents who participated in the first three workshops and a description of the workshops were published earlier. This report summarizes the nature and degree of postworkshop activities of 23 additional child psychiatrists involved in the 1984 workshops, along with the needs, problems, and sources of help that they recognized as important. Promising is the fact that the vast majority were involved in research and research training and employed in academic settings.

Topographic distribution of THY-1 positive cells in epithelial tissues of BALB/c mice / Distribuição topográfica de células THY-1 positivas em tecidos epiteliais de camundongos BALB/c

Epithelial sheets prepared from murine oral epithelia (palate, lining mucosa, gingiva) and oesophagus contained dendritic and round Thy-1 positive (+) cells similar to those observed in epidermis by immunofluorescence microscopy. Bladder, intestine and tracheal epithelium did not contain such cells. Thus, cells bearing the cells-surface glycoprotein Thy-1, like Ia-antigen-bearing Langerhans cells, may be restricted to stratified squamous epithelia