Differences Between Childhood Traumatic Experiences and Coping Styles for Male and Female Patients with Major Depression.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of childhood traumas, determine their effects on coping skills, and assess gender specific differences in patients with major depression.

Method: Fifty female and fifty male patients with unipolar depression were enrolled. All patients were administered sociodemographic a data form, the Beck Depression Inventory, and subjected to a COPE Scale.

Urinary neopterine levels in patients with major depressive disorder: alterations after treatment with paroxetine and comparison with healthy controls.

Background: A close relationship has been shown between mood disorders and pteridine levels. The aim of this study was to examine alterations in the urine neopterine levels of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) who responded to paroxetine during the initial treatment and to compare their levels to those of healthy controls.

Subjects And Methods: Sixteen patients with major depression and 19 healthy controls were enrolled in the study.

State and trait anxiety levels of adolescents in a changing society, Kirikkale city, Turkey.

Adolescents face rapidly changing challenges. Psychosocial health problems during adolescence are relatively common in all cultures. This study was designed to evaluate the state and trait anxiety status and influencing sociodemographic and other factors, thought to pertain to youth, on anxiety among school children in Kirikkale.

Assessment of the autonomic nervous system is an appropriate biological marker for the well-being in erectile dysfunction.

Aim: To investigate whether the autonomic nervous system (ANS) components are suitable biological markers for representing well-being in patients with erectile dysfunction (ED).

Methods: The present study included 74 male patients who had applied for check-ups in the cardiology outpatient clinic at Kirikkale University (Kirikkale, Turkey) and who had been diagnosed as having hyperlipidemia. Of these patients, 26 had an additional diagnosis of ED and made up the patient group.

Manic symptoms probably associated with short-term low-dose quetiapine use.

Nowadays, there is a widespread use of atypical (second-generation) antipsychotics as an adjunct pharmacotherapy in psychiatry clinics, especially at lower doses in several diagnoses. Here, 2 cases are reported where patients with diagnosed schizophrenia displayed manic symptoms on quetiapine 100 mg/d. The cases presented here had no history of mood disorders.

[Prefrontal cortex: implications for memory functions and dementia].

Objective: The prefrontal cortex (PFC), which is one of the most complex areas of the human brain, is a frontal lobe segment that is consistently implicated in motor behaviors. In recent years it has been suggested that it is involved in memory functions via its diffuse anatomical networks. In this review, it was aimed to summarize the recent literature about PFC neuroanatomy, and its role in memory, normal aging, and dementias.

Children with fractures show higher levels of impulsive-hyperactive behavior.

Children with fractures have been reported to have impulsive-hyperactive behavior problems although whether they exhibited such behavior more often than children with other orthopaedic conditions is unknown. We investigated whether impulsivity-hyperactivity was more prominent in children with extremity fractures than in children with orthopaedic conditions not involving a fracture. From outpatient clinical intakes, we recruited 39 consecutive children with extremity fractures and 33 children with orthopaedic conditions not involving a fracture.

Executive dysfunctions and depression in Behçet's disease without explicit neurological involvement.

This study aims to assess the executive functions and depression status in patients with Behçet's disease without explicit neurological involvement and to evaluate cognitive functions in this group of patients independent of accompanying depression. In the present study, 30 patients with Behçet's disease in the non-active phase of their illness and 30 healthy volunteers were included. In the evaluation of depression levels, Beck Depression Inventory was employed.