CORRELATION AMONG EXPERIENTIAL AVOIDANCE, ANXIETY SENSITIVITY AND BEHAVIORAL INHIBITION SYSTEM IN GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER AND PANIC DISORDER PATIENTS.

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the concepts of experiential avoidance, anxiety sensitivity and behavioral inhibition system through healthy volunteers and patients diagnosed with anxiety disorder. It was planned to analyze and evaluate the correlation among the levels of experiential avoidance, anxiety sensitivity and behavioral inhibition system in various anxiety groups.

Method: Within the scope of this study, clinical interviews were carried out with patients who sought treatment at the Psychiatry Department of the Hospital of Balıkesir University Medical Faculty.

The Prevalence of Postpartum Depression and the Correlation of Perceived Social Support and Quality of Life with Postpartum Depression: A Longitudinal Study.

Objective: Postpartum depression (PPD) has negative effects on the mothers who experience it. The aims of the study described herein were to determine the prevalence of PPD and to determine the correlations between PPD and perceived social support, quality of life, and the risk factors for PPD.

Methods: Data were collected using a questionnaire prepared by the researchers and that included the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, the Beck Depression Scale, the Quality of Life scale, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and questions regarding the sociodemographic characteristics and PPD risk factors of the mother.

Plasma Neuropeptide-S Levels in Populations Diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Controlled Study.

Introduction: Neuropeptide S (NPS) is a novel neuropeptide reported to be involved in fear-and stress-related conditions and their corresponding neuroendocrine processes. The aim of this study was to compare the plasma NPS levels in patients suffering from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and those of healthy controls.

Methods: A total of 40 subjects diagnosed with GAD and 40 healthy controls were recruited in the study.

Investigating the relationship between plasma neuropeptide-S levels and clinical depression.

Purpose: Neuropeptide-S (NPS) is a novel 20-amino acid peptide, mainly expressed in the central nervous system and endocrine tissues. NPS has been linked to anxiety and fear-related behaviors. The association of NPS with depression in a human population has not been previously examined.

Vitamin D Levels and Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphism in Major Depression.

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate vitamin D levels and rs2228570 (FokI) polymorphism of vitamin D in patients with established diagnosis of major depressive disorder in order to investigate the impact of vitamin D levels and genetic polymorphisms on etiology and/or severity of the disease.

Subjects And Methods: The study included 86 patients who were diagnosed with major depressive disorder in Hospital of Balıkesir University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and 89 healthy volunteers with similar age, sex, education level and BMI. Psychiatric diagnosis was established by using Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I).

Dry Eye Disease in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Depressive Disorder.

Purpose: Psychiatric conditions and not just the treatments themselves might be involved in the pathophysiology of dry eye disease (DED). The aim of our study was to evaluate the association between depression and DED using objective and subjective tests in patients with newly diagnosed depressive disorder who were not using any medication which may help us to determine the sole effect of depression on dry eye.

Methods: Thirty-six patients from the psychiatry clinic with a new diagnosis of depressive disorder and 32 controls were included in the study.

The influence of emotional distress on the outcome of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and/or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) treatment among infertile Turkish women.

Background: To determine whether the emotional distress of infertile Turkish women is related to social support and influences the outcome of their IVF and/or ICSI treatment.

Methods: The Beck Depression Inventory, State- Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Social Support scales were administered to 104 primary infertile Turkish women before the date of their embryo transfer. Comparisons were made between the women who became pregnant and those who did not following the embryo transfer.

Mirtazapine augmentation in depressed patients with sexual dysfunction due to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of mirtazapine augmentation in patients with sexual dysfunction induced by current selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) treatment.

Methods: Forty-nine outpatients in remission from major depressive disorder with SSRI treatment and experiencing treatment-emergent sexual dysfunction were invited to participate and 33 (25 women and 8 men) were included in this 8-week open-label study. All patients continued her/his current SSRI treatment (dosages unchanged) and started on mirtazapine augmentation of 15 mg/day during the first week and 30 mg/day throughout the rest of the study.

[Is there gender difference in infertile couples with no axis one psychiatric disorder in context of emotional symptoms, social support and sexual function?].

Objective: It was aimed to evaluate the levels of emotional distress, social support and sexual function of infertile couples with no psychiatric Axis-I disorder according to gender differences.

Method: The study sample of 103 primary infertile couples with no psychiatric Axis-I disorder according to DSM-IV were given Beck Depression Inventory, State and Trait Anxiety Inventory, Inventory of Perceived Social Support and Golombok Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (GRISS).

Results: The sample's depressive symptom severity did not indicate clinical depression, state anxiety was within normal range, and trait anxiety was high according to the scales.

Acute and maintenance electroconvulsive therapy for treatment of psychotic depression in a pregnant patient.

Depression may relapse during pregnancy in women with a history of depression. Treatments which may be effective for mothers may be harmful to the fetus. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been widely used in patients with different medical illnesses.

Factitious disorders encountered in patients with the diagnosis of reflex sympathetic dystrophy.

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) may be a misdiagnosis or at least not descriptive enough in patients with atypical hand posture and atypical edema. Seven patients with the previous diagnosis of RSD were investigated further because of inconsistent clinical picture with the underlying pathology and bizarre course of the disease. Four patients had clenched fist and three had factitious edema.