Economic impact of primary headaches in Turkey: a university hospital based study: part II.

This study was planned to investigate the economic impact of headache on Turkish headache sufferers attending a tertiary care outpatient headache clinic.A total of 937 headache patients were included in this study and questioned using a questionnaire for the profile of patients and headache, quality of life of patients and economic impact of headache. The median total direct cost was found to be 88.

Validity and reliability of the Turkish Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) questionnaire.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the comprehensibility, internal consistency, patient-physician reliability, test-retest reliability, and validity of Turkish version of Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) questionnaire in patients with headache.

Background: MIDAS questionnaire has been developed by Stewart et al and shown to be reliable and valid to determine the degree of disability caused by migraine.

Design And Methods: This study was designed as a national multicenter study to demonstrate the reliability and validity of Turkish version of MIDAS questionnaire.

[Reliability and validity of the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia in an elderly Turkish population].

Objective: The reliability and validity of the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia were investigated in a Turkish population over 60 years of age.

Method: Forty-six male and 34 female demented elderly people classified as demented according to DSM-IV criteria were included in the study. The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Clinical Version (SCID-I) was completed for all subjects to establish the diagnosis of major depression.

Somatosensory evoked potential and histopathological investigations in ischaemia-induced brain damage: effects of trimetazidine in rats.

We studied the protective effects of trimetazidine (TMZ) on brain damage by means of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) in rats. The TMZ group did not show any statistically significant difference from the control group with respect to SEPs. However, the percentage of cells with ischaemic cell damage in hippocampal regions was significantly smaller in the TMZ group than the control group.

Quantitative EEG analysis in obsessive compulsive disorder.

Quantitative analysis of the EEG (q-EEG) in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) showed a decreased beta and an increased theta power at frontotemporal regions. The patients who had higher scores in doubting test (Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Questionnaire) and more severely ill patients shared similar q-EEG features. The relative theta powers were significantly increased and alpha powers were significantly decreased in these patients, particularly in the frontotemporal region.