Perpetrators of homicide with schizophrenia: sociodemographic characteristics and clinical factors in the eastern region of Turkey.

In this study, we aimed to describe the social and clinical characteristics and offense details in a sample of people with schizophrenia convicted of homicide in the eastern region of Turkey. This study was performed in Elazig Mental Hospital between November 2004 and May 2007. We included 43 men and 6 women with schizophrenia convicted of homicide who were hospitalized in the forensic psychiatry unit for compulsory treatment.

Childhood trauma and dissociation in women with pseudoseizure-type conversion disorder.

Background: Conversion disorder is thought to be associated with psychological factors because of the presence of conflict and other stressors prior to the condition.

Aim: The aim of this study is to compare adult patients with pseudoseizure-type conversion disorder with healthy control group in terms of childhood trauma, dissociative disorder and family history of psychiatric disorders.

Method: 56 female patients were admitted to the general psychiatry hospital outpatient clinic between January and July 2005.

Assessment of psychopathological aspects and psychiatric comorbidities in patients affected by tinnitus.

The aim of present study was to determine the psychiatric symptoms and comorbidities in patients affected by tinnitus. The study sample, between June 2004 and September 2005, consisted of 180 Turkish adults living in Elazig. Ninety consecutive tinnitus patients were enrolled on their first visit to the outpatients clinic.