Social Cognition in Schizophrenia Patients and Their First-Degree Relatives.

Introduction: Social cognition is a person's ability to configure the designs of relationships between themselves and others and to use these designs to guide social behaviors in a flexible manner. The models that are the most studied and describe social cognition are the theory of mind (ToM) and emotion recognition. This study was aimed to detect ToM and emotion recognition disorders in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives.

Syncope associated with subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in a patient with Parkinson's disease.

In advanced Parkinson's disease (PD), deep brain stimulation (DBS) may be an alternative option for the treatment of motor symptoms. Side effects associated with subthalamic nucleus (STN) DBS in patients with PD are emerging as the most frequent sensory and motor symptoms. DBS-related syncope is reported as extremely rare.

Does probe's eye subthalamic nucleus length on T2W MRI correspond with microelectrode recording in patients with deep brain stimulation for advanced Parkinson's disease?

Aim: Subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become a well-accepted treatment for patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD). During surgical planning for DBS, the length of the STN is taken into account and verified during microelectrode recording (MER) intraoperatively. Here, we addressed the question to which extent the length of the STN measured with the T2 weighted MRI in the probe's eye view corresponded with the intraoperatively determined length of the STN with MER.

Conversion of local anesthesia-guided deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus to general anesthesia.

Background: Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is a widely applied procedure in the treatment of patients with advanced Parkinson disease and is generally performed under local anesthesia. Here we report our experience with the conversion to general anesthesia in two patients with advanced Parkinson disease because of fear reactions intraoperatively.

Case Description: Patients received general anesthesia with propofol and were implanted with electrodes at the level of STN guided by multiple-microelectrode electrophysiological recordings after obtaining informed consent.

[Possible subtypes of panic disorder].

Objective: The present study, is aimed to investigate the distributiondispersion of panic attack symptoms, the possible subtypes of panic disorder, and the clinical features related to these subtypes in patients with panic disorder.

Material And Methods: The study included 105 patients that presented to the Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Medicine Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic and met the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for panic disorder. The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR Axis I Disorders (SCID-I), Panic Attack Symptom Checklist (PASC), Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID-II), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI), Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS), and Panic and Agoraphobia Scale (PAS) were administered to all the patients.

Religious and spiritual practices among patients with cancer.

The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency with which cancer patients engage in religious and spiritual practices, the methods used, the reasons for such a search, and the levels of depression and hopelessness in patients who seek spiritual assistance. One hundred and ten radiation oncology patients, who gave voluntary informed consent were included in this study. Questionnaires about religious and spiritual practices were administered, along with the Beck Depression and Beck Hopelessness scales.

The frequency of the psychiatric symptoms in the patients with dyspepsia at a university hospital.

Objective: According to the psychiatric hypothesis, the symptoms of dyspepsia may be due to depression, anxiety or a somatization disorder. We investigated the frequency of psychiatric symptoms in patients undergoing endoscopic procedures with dyspepsia, either with or without pathological findings, and compared this with control subjects without dyspeptic symptoms.

Methods: Ninety patients with dyspeptic symptoms and 90 control subjects participated in the study.

Conversion and somatization disorders; dissociative symptoms and other characteristics.

Objective: There is a difference in classification of conversion disorder in ICD-10 and DSM-IV. Conversion disorder is included in dissociative disorders in ICD-10. In view of this, we aimed to clarify this discrepancy in the classification of this diagnosis.

Conversion disorder and its subtypes: a need for a reclassification.

Four subtypes of conversion disorder were described in DSM-IV. There are few publications concerning studies aimed at separating the subtypes of the conversion disorder. Usually, pseudoseizures are in focus and attempts are made to differentiate these seizures from other disorders.