An analysis of changes in cerebral blood flood velocities in depressive pseudo-dementia and Alzheimer disease patients.

Background: Patients with pseudo-dementia are at particular risk of being labeled as Alzheimer dementia. We thus need better diagnostic methods. In this study, we evaluated the cerebral reactivity of the posterior cerebral arteries (PCAs) during visual stimulation by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography.

A gender-oriented comparison between the mental health profiles of Bulgarian immigrants forcibly migrated to Turkey and the native population 15 years after migration.

Unlabelled: Background. The considerable problem of the migration of people, mainly from developing or undeveloped countries to developed countries, is a worldwide issue. The aims of this study were to compare, according to gender, scores obtained pertaining to mental symptom distributions of Bulgarian immigrants arriving in one city of west Turkey in 1989 with those of native-born citizens, as well as to the scores obtained from the scales of anxiety, hopelessness, job and life satisfaction.

Gender differences in psychological effect of the August 1999 earthquake in Turkey.

Disasters traumatically expose normal populations to severe threats to life, deaths of relatives and massive environmental destruction. Epidemiological studies found that women would be more vulnerable to disaster than men. In this study, we examined gender differences in short-term psychological effect of the 1999 earthquake in Turkey on adult survivors.

Identification of violence in Turkish health care settings.

This study sought to investigate the contributing factors to and frequency of violence against health care workers (HCWs) working in western Turkey. The population is composed of a random sample of 1,209 HCWs from 34 health care workplaces. Written questionnaires were given to HCWs at all sites, where staff were instructed to register all types of violence they had experienced.

[Acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder after motor vehicle accidents].

Objective: We examined the rates of and factors associated with the development of acute stress disorder (ASD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after motor vehicle accidents (MVAs).

Method: Forty hospitalized patients who had orthopedic injuries after MVAs and 26 hospitalized patients who had orthopedic injuries without a MVA were included in the study. One month after the MVA, the General Health Questionnare (GHQ) Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnare (PDEQ) and sociodemographic data questionnaire were given to all patients.

Neurocognitive deficits and quality of life in outpatients with schizophrenia.

The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine the relationships between neurocognitive deficits and quality of life for patient with schizophrenia. Fifty-seven schizophrenic outpatients (38 men and 19 women) were assessed for neurocognitive deficits using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and all patients completed the PCASEE (P=physical, C=cognitive, A=affective, S=social, E=economic-social, and E=ego functions) questionnaire to assess their quality of life. We assessed psychiatric symptoms using the Schedule for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS) and the Schedule for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS).