Impact of COVID-19 on the Life of Higher-Education Students in İstanbul: Relationship Between Social Support, Health-Risk Behaviors, and Mental/Academic Well-Being.

Objective: This study aimed to draw a general picture of the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) -pandemic on the life of higher-education students in İstanbul, with specific emphasis on the relationship between students' social support systems, health-risk behaviors, and mental/academic well-being.

Methods: A total of 2583 higher-education students from different fields of study participated in an online survey gathering information from several domains, including available social networks, support-seeking attitudes, substance use patterns, physical activity levels, academic stress, academic satisfaction, and psychological well-being during the pandemic.

Results: Our findings pointed to major changes in students' life circumstances and daily routines during COVID-19, including a significant decrease in contact with friends, overall substance use, and physical activity as well as high levels of depression, academic stress, and academic dissatisfaction.

A Case of Chronic Functional Parkinsonism Treated Over 10 Years for the Diagnosis of Juvenile Parkinsonism.

Functional (psychogenic) movement disorders (FMD) constitute a cluster of heterogeneous diagnoses involving motor symptoms that cannot be explained by organic pathology and are often associated with underlying psychological problems. In psychiatry, patients with FMD are often placed within the scope of somatoform disorders and conversion disorders. Functional Parkinsonism (FP) is a rare form of FMD seen in 1.

The severity of inflammation in major neuropsychiatric disorders: comparison of neutrophil-lymphocyte and platelet-lymphocyte ratios between schizophrenia, bipolar mania, bipolar depression, major depressive disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Background: As non-specific markers of immune dysregulation, neutrophil-lymphocyte and platelet-lymphocyte ratios (NLR and PLR) have been consistently shown to be increased in major neuropsychiatric disorders. Although this increase seems to be trans-diagnostic, the extent to which its magnitude differs between disorders remains largely unclear.

Aim: The aim of this study was to directly compare the severity of inflammation (as reflected by NLR and PLR) between schizophrenia (Sch), bipolar mania (BD-M), bipolar depression (BD-D), major depressive disorder (MDD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

An Analysis of the Psychosocial Challenges Faced by the University Students During COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward the Disease.

Introduction: The aims of the present study were 1) to identify the major psychosocial challenges faced by students of a university in Istanbul, during the initial period of the COVID-19 outbreak, 2) to assess how these interacted with their level of knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward COVID-19 and the related health measures in place.

Methods: As part of an international research, a total of 2583 university students from Istanbul participated in an online survey, which included questions in several domains including their studies and daily life before and after the outbreak, their concerns and worries about the pandemic, their level of knowledge on COVID-19, their views on the policies implemented by the government and their institution, their attitude and practices toward the protective measures.

Results: Majority of the students reported to suffer from financial adversities due to the outbreak.

Oral cenesthopathy superimposed on burning mouth syndrome treated with aripiprazole: A case report with a phenomenological overview.

Background: Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is an idiopathic condition that presents with chronic pain and/or burning sensations in the oral structures. The syndrome mostly affects elderly women with hormonal changes and/or with a diagnosis of comorbid psychiatric disorder. In some rare conditions, the clinical appearance of BMS may also overlap with oral cenestopathy (OC), which is defined in the literature as a special form of delusional disorder of somatic type.

Acute onset psychosis with complex neurobehavioural symptomatology following the intramuscular injection of hyoscine butylbromide: a case report with an overview of the literature.

Different compounds of hyoscine (scopolamine) are widely used for the treatment of a variety of conditions, ranging from motion sickness to colic spasms and smoking cessation. In some rare conditions, the administration of scopolamine may lead to severe idiosyncratic reactions, including central anticholinergic intoxication syndrome. Here, we present a young female patient who progressively developed a series of complex neuropsychiatric symptoms including ataxia, slurred and rambling speech, stereotypic movements, vivid visual and auditory hallucinations, and self-mutilative behaviours in the days following the injection of hyoscine butylbromide in the emergency room to treat her menstrual cramps.

Domestic Violence Among Women Attending to Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic.

Objective: Domestic violence (DV) is defined as all kinds of abusive behaviors between spouses or relatives living in the same house. Domestic violence is most commonly directed towards women and children. This study aims to review the extent of domestic violence among women consulting to psychiatric outpatient clinic, and to identify its relation with sociodemographic risk factors and psychological symptoms.

Heart rate variability response to affective pictures processed in and outside of conscious awareness: Three consecutive studies on emotional regulation.

Previous research has increased understanding of the neurobiological basis of emotional regulation. However, less is known concerning the unconscious processing of affective information. Three experiments were performed to investigate the extent to which complex affective stimuli can be processed outside of consciousness and demonstrate possible mechanisms for regulation of resulting emotional responses.

Efficacy of bright light therapy in bipolar depression.

For 30 years, bright light therapy (BLT) has been considered as an effective, well-tolerated treatment for seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Because of low response rates, new treatment strategies are needed for bipolar depression (BD), which resembles SAD in certain respects. Few placebo-controlled studies of BLT efficacy have been carried out for BD.