Evidence for modulation of planning and working memory capacities by transcranial direct current stimulation in a sample of adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Background And Objective: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder that affects up to 2.8% of the adult population. Albeit pharmacological and behavioral therapies alleviate some core symptoms of ADHD, they do not avail cognitive dysfunction adequately.

Episodic psychosis, ataxia, motor neuropathy with pyramidal signs (PAMP syndrome) caused by a novel mutation in ADPRHL2 (AHR3).

Background: The protein "ADP-Ribosylarginine Hydrolase-Like Protein 2" is encoded by ADPRHL2 and reverses ADP-ribosylation. Recently, mutations in ADPRHL2 were found to be associated with a very rare childhood onset severe neurodegeneration syndrome with episodic, stress-induced seizures, ataxia, and axonal neuropathy. In this study, we evaluate a novel mutation in ADPRHL2 leading to an unknown adult onset syndrome "episodic psychosis, ataxia, motor neuropathy with pyramidal signs (PAMP syndrome).

Turkish inappropriate medication use in the elderly (TIME) criteria to improve prescribing in older adults: TIME-to-STOP/TIME-to-START.

Purpose: To improve prescribing in older adults, criterion sets have been introduced from different countries. While current criterion sets are useful to some extent, they do not meet the need in some European countries. Turkish inappropriate medication use in the elderly (TIME) criteria was planned to meet this need.

Investigation of the Video-EEG Findings and Clinical Data in Patients Diagnosed With Epilepsy and Psychosis.

Background: Studies on electrophysiological characteristics of patients with epilepsy and concomitant psychosis are limited. We aimed to investigate the clinical and video-electroencephalography (EEG) findings of patients with epilepsy-related psychosis (EP).

Materials And Methods: Fifteen patients diagnosed with EP, assessed at the video-EEG monitoring unit and were under follow-up at both epilepsy and psychiatry clinics, were included.

How Different Are the Patients With Bilateral Hippocampal Sclerosis From the Unilateral Ones Clinically?

Purpose: There is a lack of knowledge on consecutive patients with epilepsy associated with bilateral hippocampal sclerosis (BHS). We aimed to investigate the differentiating features of BHS in comparison with unilateral HS (UHS).

Method: We investigated our database for patients with epilepsy fulfilling the major magnetic resonance imaging criteria for BHS; namely, presence of bilateral atrophy and high signal changes on T2 and FLAIR series in the hippocampi.

Kleptomania in patients with neuro-Behçet's disease.

Objective: This study was conducted to characterize the prevalence and clinical features of kleptomania, an impulse control disorder, in patients with Behçet's disease involving the central nervous system.

Subjects And Methods: Medical records of 350 patients with neuro-Behçet's disease were evaluated, and clinical and neuropsychological features of patients with kleptomania were noted.

Results: Of the 350 neuro-Behçet's disease patients 6 (1.

Using personality disorders to distinguish between patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures and those with epileptic seizures.

Identifying psychiatric disorders rather than psychiatric symptoms might help to distinguish patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) from those with epileptic seizures (ES). Patients with PNES (n=35), patients with ES (n=35), and healthy controls (n=37) were compared with respect to the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in this study. We tested the predictive power of having axis I psychiatric disorders, as well as personality disorders, in distinguishing ES from PNES.

A comparative study of obsessive-compulsive disorder and other psychiatric comorbidities in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and idiopathic generalized epilepsy.

Our aim was to assess the associations of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) with comorbid psychiatric conditions, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), in a comparative design. We evaluated 29 patients with TLE, 27 patients with IGE, and 30 healthy controls. The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID), Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) Symptom Checklist, and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were administered.

The efficacy of mirtazapine in agitated patients with Alzheimer's disease: A 12-week open-label pilot study.

Agitation is one of the most devastating behavioral symptoms in demented patients but there is little evidence about effective and safe pharmacotherapy. We aimed to determine the effectiveness and safety of mirtazapine in treatment of agitated patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The consecutive patients with AD who have significant agitation were assigned to a 12-week open-label, prospective study.

Mood and anxiety disorders in patients with myasthenia gravis: aetiology, diagnosis and treatment.

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a chronic, autoimmune disease involving neuromuscular junctions. It is frequently associated with symptoms such as loss of muscle strength, difficulty in respiration and swallowing, diplopia and ptosis. All chronic diseases, including MG, may have psychiatric consequences in terms of coping and adaptation.

An unspecified clinical syndrome in mentally retarded patients with bilateral mesial temporal sclerosis.

Purpose: The association of febrile convulsions and mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) is a well-known phenomenon. However, the effects of mental retardation on febrile convulsions and MTS have not been investigated previously. The aim of this study is to investigate the relation of mental retardation to febrile convulsions especially as febrile status epilepticus and MTS.

Unrecognized depression in community-dwelling elderly persons in Istanbul.

Objective: Depression, one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders, causes disability and reduces quality of life. Rates of clinical depression in community samples of older adults range between 1-16%. Most studies of old age depression have been conducted in developed countries.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder secondary to bilateral frontal damage due to a closed head injury.

Objective: To describe a patient who exhibited obsessive-compulsive disorder and frontal lobe dysfunction signs after a closed head trauma.

Background: Recent evidence indicates that frontal-subcortical circuits are involved in the pathogenesis of primary obsessive-compulsive disorder. There are a number of case reports of secondary obsessive-compulsive disorder after lesions involving certain parts of these circuits.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder after epilepsy surgery.

It is a well-known fact that after epilepsy surgery (ES) preexisting psychopathology may deteriorate or de novo psychopathological syndromes, mainly of a depressive and psychotic nature, may appear. Previously, recovery of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) after ES has been reported in patients who had comorbid OCD preoperatively; however, there have been no reports on the appearance of de novo OCD interfering with daily living activities post-ES. This is the first report of OCD after ES in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE).