A Shift of the Pupillary Balance Towards the Parasymphathetic System in Migraine Patients with Aura.

Introduction: To analyze the static and dynamic pupillometrics in migraine patients with aura and compare these parameters to those in age- and sex-matched healthy participants.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included 34 patients with migraine and 37 healthy participants as a control group. The static pupillometrics consisted of scotopic pupil diameter (PD), mesopic PD, and low and high photopic PD.

Neuropathic Pain Frequency in Neurology Outpatients: A Multicenter Study.

Introduction: Neuropathic pain is common, but the frequency of misdiagnosis and irrational treatment is high. The aim of this study is to evaluate the rate of neuropathic pain in neurology outpatient clinics by using valid and reliable scales and review the treatments of patients.

Methods: The study was conducted for 3 months in eleven tertiary health care facilities.

[Validation of the revised illness perception questionnaire for migraine patients and the effects of earthquake experience on perception of disease].

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) and to determine the effects of earthquake experience on the perception in migraine patients.

Methods: The sample was composed of 62 outpatients, consisting of with migraine diagnosis who were in Erciş during earthquake (n=33) and who had never had any earthquake experience (n=29).The interview form, IPQ-R and Beck Depression Scale (BDS) were applied.

Validation of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire in Turkish epilepsy patients and the effects of earthquake experience on perception of disease.

Objective: The aims of this study were to investigate the reliability of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) in Turkish patients with epilepsy (PWE) and to determine the effects of earthquake experience on the perception of disease in patients.

Materials And Methods: The sample was composed of 48 PWE, who were affected by the 2011 earthquake (n=21) or who had never had any earthquake experience (n=27). The interview form, IPQ-R, and Beck Depression Scale (BDS) were applied.

Antioxidative-oxidative balance in epilepsy patients on antiepileptic therapy: a prospective case-control study.

Oxidative stress has been implicated in various disorders, including epilepsy. The aim of this study was to investigate the oxidant and antioxidant status of patients with epilepsy using antiepileptic drugs regularly and to compare them with healthy subjects. We investigated serum catalase (CAT), malondialdehyde (MDA), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and xanthine oxidase (XO) levels in 58 epilepsy patients and 25 healthy controls.

Neuromyelitis optica in children: a review of the literature.

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a rare and severe inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS), which constitutes up to 5% of pediatric aquired demyelinating diseases. The optic nerves and the spinal cord are the most affected sites. The discovery of an autoantibody called NMO-IgG, which targets aquaporin-4, the main water channel in the CNS, gave a new direction to understanding the underlying immunologic mechanisms.

Three Turkish families with different transthyretin mutations.

Transthyretin (TTR)-related hereditary amyloidosis, also called familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP), is a rare autosomal dominant systemic disorder that presents with progressive axonal sensory, autonomic and/or motor neuropathies. The present report describes three families with three different TTR mutations who were followed from 1995 to 2014. Only one of these families expressed the Val30Met mutation, which is the most common mutation in endemic regions; all members of this family had late disease onset but varied severities and clinical presentations of the disease.