A two-year follow-up inquiry was made of the residuum of a cohort formed by all senior registrars in general psychiatry in post in late 1974. Of the original 155, nearly half are in permanent posts, but only three-quarters of these are in general psychiatry in the United Kingdom. Twelve have already emigrated.

The study of eye disorders in maladjusted children plays an interesting and important role in the investigation of psychosomatic problems of child psychiatry. Eye diseases in maladjusted children are frequently caused or aggravated by psychogenic factors. They are also sometimes connected with neurological disorders.

In several previous studies it has been shown that the mean tremor amplitude displayed by morbidly anxious patients is greater than that of normal control subjects. The most detailed experiments were those carried out by Redfearn (1957). He compared the findings obtained in groups of male morbidly anxious patients and controls, and in addition to confirming the existence of a difference in tremor amplitude, he reported that the tremor of male anxious patients showed a greater degree of accentuation of the 8–10 c/sec. components than the tremor of a matched control group. Halliday and Redfearn (1956) compared the tremor spectra obtained from normal male and female subjects, and found that the curve for men was similar to that for women.

Some apology may at first sight appear to be needed for burdening yet further the literature on blood sugar in the psychoses. The following observations, however, require recording, in that they illustrate certain aspects of the relation of the behaviour of the blood sugar level to changes in mental state which are as yet obscure.

Does convulsive therapy in the depressive states produce its effect by some action on the pituitary and hypothalamus? This is a question which we at Barnwood House and at the Burden Neurological Institute are trying to answer.