Publications by authors named "Fevzi Tuna Ocakoglu"
Objective: Emergencies in child and adolescent psychiatry are prevalent, and pediatric psychiatric emergency departments play a crucial role in acute intervention during mental health-related crises. This retrospective cross-sectional study aimed to analyze the characteristics of children and adolescents who were admitted to a pediatric psychiatric emergency department.
Method: The data were collected from the records of 8803 patients (females 56.
Introduction: Temperament differences were shown in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, associations of temperament with ASD severity and accompanying psychiatric symptoms have yet to be studied.
Methods: We evaluated 58 ASD-diagnosed children's temperaments through disorder severity and psychiatric symptoms and compared them with 58 typically developed children. We utilized the Children's Behavior Questionnaire-Short Form, The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).
Background: Primary immunodeficiency disorder (PID), being a chronic disorder, may increase the prevalence of psychopathologies, but there are few studies on the effect of disease-related factors on psychopathology in this population. The aim of this study was therefore to assess and compare three groups: children with PID who receive i.v.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Previous studies showed the association of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene. We aimed to explore the OXTR gene single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the ASD severity categories based on DSM-5.
Method: The whole encoding regions of the human OXTR gene were sequenced to identify the SNPs in 100 Turkish children with ASD.