THE PLACE OF CLINICAL-TRIALS IN MEMORY CL INICS

The main points of a workshop on the place of clinical trials in the m emory clinics in France are reproduced schematically. The efficiency o f these centres has been tested at the time of the numerous clinical t rials performed in France on Alzheimer's disease. In parallel, several difficulties have been pointed out: inhomogeneity of the technical ap proaches, official role of psychologists in the hospital teams, integr ation of clinical research to individual care. A particular effort sho uld be oriented towards specific research on the different types of de mentia, on early stages, on information for both media and authorities as well as on specific technical and methodological problems.