Publications by authors named "L Besiroglu"
Poor integration and landmark views make opposing claims regarding the relationship between post-traumatic stress symptoms and trauma memory integration. This study tested these approaches using an event cluster paradigm. In total, 126 participants ( = 61; = 65) remembered memories from the same story as trauma, positive and neutral memories and reported whether each memory was directly retrieved or generated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLittle is known about the underlying neurobiological mechanisms in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We aimed to examine cortical thickness and surface area in individuals with OCD and their unaffected siblings, comparing them to healthy controls. 30 patients with OCD, 21 unaffected siblings (SIB) and 30 controls underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent theories suggest a shift from model-based goal-directed to model-free habitual decision-making in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, it is yet unclear, whether this shift in the decision process is heritable. We investigated 32 patients with OCD, 27 unaffected siblings (SIBs) and 31 healthy controls (HCs) using the two-step task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We aimed to examine white matter microstructure and connectivity in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and their unaffected siblings, relative to healthy controls.
Methods: Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) scans were acquired in 30 patients with OCD, 21 unaffected siblings, and 31 controls. We examined white matter microstructure using measures of fractional anisotropy (FA), radial diffusivity (RD), and axial diffusivity (AD).
Article Synopsis
- The study assessed obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) in 100 adult epilepsy outpatients, utilizing various psychological assessment tools like the OCI-R, BDI, and others.
- It found that epilepsy patients with OCS often exhibited obsessions and compulsions centered around symmetry and exactness, contrasting with OCD patients who showed more contamination, cleaning, and aggressiveness themes.
- Additionally, OCS prevalence was higher in patients with temporal lobe and extratemporal epilepsy compared to those with generalized epilepsy, and these symptoms were linked to higher levels of depression, dissociation, and schizotypy in epilepsy patients.