Reliability and Validity of Turkish version of DSM-5 Substance Use Scale.

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the severity of substance use disorders according to the DSM-5 criteria and to show the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the DSM-5 Substance Use Scale that improved to learn what kind of substances are used.

Methods: In this study,54 in or out-patients who met the criteria for any substance use disorder according to DSM-5 and who are receiving treatment in Psychiatry Department of Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine and AMATEM department of Bakırköy Prof. Dr.

Risk of Relapse Assessment Scale for Metamphetamine Abusers: Reliability and Validity Study of the Turkish Version.

Background: This study aims to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish adaptation of the 16-item Risk of Relapse Assessment Scale (RRAS) for methamphetamine abusers.

Methods: A total of 160 patients diagnosed with methamphetamine use disorder were included in this study to evaluate the validity and reliability of the scale. The comparison of the relationship between the Risk of Relapse Assessment Scale, the Substance Craving Scale, and the Relapse Prediction Scale was also carried out.

Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Biomarkers in People with Methamphetamine Use Disorder.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the blood serum levels of biomarkers specifying oxidative stress status and systemic inflammation between people using methamphetamine (METH) and the control group (CG). Serum thiol/disulfide balance and ischemia-modified albumin levels were studied to determine oxidative stress, and serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels and complete blood count (CBC) were to assess inflammation.

Methods: Fifty patients with METH use disorder (MUD) and 36 CG participants were included in the study.

Following the White Vulture: Ethno-ornithology along the Flyway of the Egyptian Vulture ().

Unlabelled: Vultures constitute globally the most rapidly declining group of birds. Across their wide distribution range, they share common ecological functions and unfavourable conservation status while being associated with varying habitats, lifestyles, cultural standing, and threats. We reveal conceptualisations about the emblematic yet critically endangered Egyptian vulture along its migratory flyway from the Balkans through the Middle East to Africa.

Higher efficiency of frozen embryo transfer in male infertility cases in in vitro fertilization.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to analyze the success rates of frozen and fresh embryo transfer methods in different patient groups.

Material And Methods: The study included 453 patients who underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. The patients were further divided into three groups as male factor, tubal/ovarian/uterine factor, and other factors.

Prodynorphin (PDYN) gene polymorphisms in Turkish patients with methamphetamine use disorder, changes in PDYN serum levels in withdrawal and the relationship between PDYN, temperament and depression.

Aim of the study is to compare prodynorphin (PDYN) rs1997794, rs1022563, rs6045819, rs2235749 polymorphisms in individuals with methamphetamine use disorder (MD) to that of healthy controls (HC), and to investigate the differences in serum PDYN levels in methamphetamine withdrawal. It is also aimed to explore the temperament characteristics and depression and their relationship with PDYN polymorphisms and PDYN serum levels in MD group. PDYN gene and serum levels were studied in 134 patients with MD and 97 HC.

Relationship of Probable Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder with Severity of Psychopathology and Impulsivity in a Sample of Male Patients with Opioid Use Disorder.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate relationship of probable attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with severity of psychopathology and the effect of impulsivity on this relationship in a sample of male patients with opioid use disorder (OUD).

Methods: Participants included 234 patients (115 inpatients and 119 outpatients) with OUD. Participants were evaluated with the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-v1.

Long-Term Outcomes of Laparoscopic Bean Vaginoplasty (Modified Vecchietti Procedure) for Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser Syndrome.

Objective: The objective of our study is to evaluate the long-term results of laparoscopic bean vaginoplasty (LBV), which we previously described.

Materials And Methods: From April 2002 to September 2013, 62 patients, who were diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser Syndrome and underwent LBV in Cukurova University School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology were included in the study. Operative data, complication rates, vaginal length, and sexuality of patients during the follow-up period were evaluated.

Annular hymenotomy for imperforate hymen.

Aim: Imperforate hymen is the most common obstructive anomaly of the female genital tract. Conventional surgical treatment for this condition is the cruciate incision made on the hymen. The aim of this study was to evaluate a novel technique that preserves virginity after hymenotomy using electrocautery.

Are ICAM, VCAM and E-selectin levels different in first manic episode and subsequent remission?

Objective: In bipolar patients, the rate of mortality from cardiovascular diseases is two-fold higher than that in other psychiatric disorders. The risk of cardiovascular diseases was found to be associated with some cellular adhesion molecules: Intracellular adhesion molecule (ICAM), vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM) and E-selectin. The aim of this study was to compare ICAM, VCAM and E-selectin levels at first manic episode and subsequent remission period, and to investigate the presence of a relationship between adhesion molecules levels and clinical and metabolic variables.

Unilateral laparoscopic tubal reversal versus IVF.

Background: Tubal sterilization is one of the most important surgical techniques for sterilization. There is a dilemma for women who wish to undo this procedure in the choice between tubal reversal or in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Patients And Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, 134 patients who had had tubal sterilization previously and wished to have another child were enrolled in this study.

[Aphasia, prosopagnosia and mania: a case diagnosed with right temporal variant semantic dementia].

Neurologic disorders can produce "secondary" mania, and clinicians must distinguish secondary mania from bipolar disorders (BD). Patients with new and late onset mania require an evaluation that includes a thorough history, a neurologic examination, neuroimaging, and other selected tests. Neurologic causes of mania include strokes in the right basotemporal or inferofrontal region, strokes or tumors in the perihypothalamic region, Huntington's disease and other movement disorders, multiple sclerosis and other white matter diseases, head trauma, infections such as neurosyphilis and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

Plasma concentrations of soluble cytokine receptors in euthymic bipolar patients with and without subsyndromal symptoms.

Background: Current evidence suggests that high concentrations of pro-inflammatory markers are associated with bipolar disorder characterized by severe impairment during inter-episodic periods, reduced treatment response and persistent subsyndromal symptoms. We tested whether persistent subsyndromal symptoms in euthymic bipolar patients were associated with markers of an ongoing chronic pro-inflammatory process.

Methods: Forty-five euthymic bipolar patients (22 with subsyndromal symptoms (BD+) and 23 without subsyndromal symptoms (BD-) and 23 well controls (WC) were recruited for assessment of soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 (sTNF-R1), soluble interleukin-6 receptor (sIL-6R) and soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) concentrations.

Relationship of defense styles with history of childhood trauma and personality in heroin dependent inpatients.

In the present study the defense styles were assessed in heroin dependent inpatients to verify whether they used less adaptive defense mechanisms compared to healthy controls and to evaluate if immature defense styles are related with childhood traumas, while controlling the effect of age, temperament and character on this relationship in male heroin dependent inpatients. Participants were consecutively admitted 109 male heroin dependent inpatients and 60 healthy controls. Patients were investigated with the Defense Style Questionnaire, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and Temperament and Character Inventory.

Relationship between defense styles, alexithymia, and personality in alcohol-dependent inpatients.

In the present study, the defense styles were assessed in alcohol-dependent patients to verify whether they used less adaptive defense mechanisms compared with healthy controls and to evaluate if immature defense styles (IDSs) are related with alexithymia, while controlling the effect of age, temperament, and character on this relationship in male alcohol-dependent inpatients. Participants were consecutively admitted 118 male alcohol-dependent inpatients and 60 healthy controls. Patients were investigated with the Defense Style Questionnaire, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, and the Temperament and Character Inventory.

Family planning choices in couples using contraception without knowing they are infertile: should newly-wed men undergo a routine spermiogram?

Introduction: Newly-weds choose to use contraception either to spend the first years of their marriage more freely, because of economic reasons or because of the increase in working career women. We studied the reasons for infertility and the rate of contraception use in the first years of marriage among couples with primary infertility and evaluated the use of a spermiogram as a screening test in newly-wed men.

Subjects And Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 302 couples with primary infertility who were treated at our infertility clinic were included in the study.

Cytokine levels in euthymic bipolar patients.

Background: The pathophysiology of bipolar disorder is not thoroughly understood. Several studies have investigated the possible role of cytokines in psychiatric disorders, based on their role in neuro-immune modulation; however, findings in studies on bipolar disorder remain limited and contradictory, and most studies have focused on either manic or depressive episodes. These studies suggest that both manic and depressive episodes could be pro-inflammatory states.

An outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in western Anatolia, Turkey.

Objective: Sporadic Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) cases were first reported in Turkey in 2002, arising particularly in northeastern Anatolia. Epidemics have been reported in neighboring countries since the 1970s. With the increase in number of CCHF virus infected or suspected cases in the Aydin region of western Anatolia by 2006, we decided to focus attention on this disease.

Effects of methotrexate on the tubal morphology of rabbits: evaluation by electron microscopy.

Background/aims: To evaluate by electron microscopy the effects of methotrexate on the tubal morphology of rabbits.

Methods: Biopsies were taken from the isthmic portion of both tubes of 4 rabbits in the control group. 1 mg/kg methotrexate was injected in the left tubes and as a control, a 14-gauge fine needle was used to puncture the right tubes of 10 rabbits in the study group.

The effect of tubal ligation scoring and sterilization counseling on the request for tubal reanastomosis.

Objective: The aim of this study is to emphasize the role of counseling methods that are meant to decrease the request for tubal ligation reversal, such as tubal ligation scoring.

Method: This study covers 389 patients who were admitted for tubal sterilization to Cukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 1999. We have used the 'Tubal ligation score' on these 389 patients.

Executive function and cognitive subprocesses in first-episode, drug-naive schizophrenia: an analysis of N-back performance.

Objective: This study investigated changes in the cognitive architecture of N-back performance in schizophrenia.

Method: N-back performance of 12 patients with first-episode, drug-naive schizophrenia and matched healthy comparison subjects was studied in a reaction-time decomposition paradigm.

Results: Imposition of a working memory load led to a significant drop in response accuracy in patients.

The effects of ovulation induction during infertility treatment on gingival inflammation.

Background: Ovulation induction is the most common method of infertility treatment in which the ovaries are stimulated to produce multiple follicles. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of three drug protocols of ovulation induction: clomiphene citrate (CC) alone, CC combined with follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and CC combined with human menopausal gonadotropin (HMG) on the gingival tissues of women who were undergoing infertility treatment.

Methods: Study population was composed of 18 women using CC for three menstrual cycles or less and 16 women using CC for more than three cycles; 21 women using CC-FSH; and 24 women using CC-HMG who had at least four cycles of CC alone the previous year.

Laparoscopic microsurgical tubal reanastomosis: a preliminary study.

Objective: To determine the effect of laparoscopic reversal of tubal sterilization on pregnancy rate.

Methods: Eight patients who underwent laparoscopic tubal reversal between March 1999 and 31 December 2001 were evaluated.

Results: Four of eight patients who had had laparoscopic tubal reversal became pregnant.