Publications by authors named "Elif Buse Caliskan"

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  • Dopamine may play a role in placebo effects related to reward and learning, but its exact function is still not fully understood.
  • The study tested the impact of dopamine modulation through medication (sulpiride and L-dopa) on pain relief expectations and placebo analgesia in 168 healthy participants.
  • Results showed that these medications did not affect the development or maintenance of placebo analgesia, suggesting that dopamine may not directly influence these effects, highlighting the need for further research on the neurochemical mechanisms behind placebo responses.*
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Introduction: Positive and negative treatment expectations are powerful modulators of health and treatment outcomes. A substantial part of treatment success is due to contextual factors modulating patient's expectations towards a treatment. Consequently, treatment expectations should be a target of therapeutic interventions themselves.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and the characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a tertiary outpatient clinic of asthma patients, find the predisposing asthma phenotype to COVID-19, and to see their adherence to asthma treatment.

Material And Methods: A retrospective, cross-sectional, real life study was conducted via phone interviews with the patients being followed in the asthma outpatient clinic. From the files of the patient information was obtained about their demographics, asthma phenotype, co-morbidity, prick tests, spirometry test results and their medications at the last visit before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Objectives: Infliximab (IFX) is increasingly being used for the treatment of severe manifestations of Behçet's syndrome (BS). However, emergence of new manifestations has also been occasionally reported during IFX treatment. We aimed to assess the frequency of new manifestations in our BS patients treated with IFX.

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