Investigating Retrospective and Prospective Metamemory Judgments During Episodic Memory in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders.

It is clear evidence that individuals diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) lack confidence in their memory and have low metamemory performance (judgment and accuracy). However, it is still unclear whether low metamemory performance is specific to first, domain general or domain specific, and second, to stimulus domain. To address these issues, we compared individuals diagnosed with OCD and healthy controls (HCs) on recognition, retrospective (judgments of learning [JOL]) and prospective (feeling of knowing [FOK]) metamemory judgments and under three different episodic memory tasks, which consisted of symptom-free, familiar and unfamiliar stimuli (word, scene, and face photo).

Exploring the role of adult attachment, major depression and childhood trauma in arterial stiffness: A preliminary study.

Objective: Prior research indicates a noteworthy and intricate connection between depression and subclinical atherosclerosis. Nevertheless, the biological and psychological mechanisms that underlie this association are not yet fully understood. To address this gap, this exploratory study aimed to examine the relationship between active clinical depression and arterial stiffness (AS), with a particular focus on the potential mediating roles of attachment security and childhood trauma.

Efficacy of bright light therapy in perinatal depression: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Background: Uncertainties and difficulties associated with the current treatment modalities for perinatal depression (PND) may cause some mothers to avoid treatment. Raising awareness about the effectiveness and safety of bright light therapy (BLT) may help to alleviate the challenges of PND. The main goal of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of BLT versus placebo in PND.

Theory of mind and its relationship with alexithymia and quality of life in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: Comparisons with generalised epilepsy and healthy controls.

Objective: Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are associated with high alexithymia, social cognition problems and low quality of life (QoL). Theory of Mind (ToM) has been studied in several conditions as a significant predictor of QoL. We aimed to assess the relationship between ToM abilities, alexithymia and subjective QoL in PNES patients and compare with generalised epilepsy (ES) patients and healthy controls.

Impact of expectant mother's knowledge level about fetal anomaly scan on their state anxiety prior to antenatal ultrasound screening.

Objective: We aimed to investigate the role of expectant mothers' background antenatal ultrasound knowledge on their state anxiety when they apply for the ultrasound examination.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in perinatology outpatient clinic of a university hospital. Expectant mothers who applied for the first trimester ultrasound scan and second trimester anomaly scan were recruited to the study.

Significant Effects of Body Image on Sexual Functions and Satisfaction in Psoriasis Patients.

Negative body image appraisals may effect the sexual functions, avoidance, and level of finding oneself sexually attractive. The aim of the study is to assess the levels of sexual dysfunction and sexual satisfaction in patients with psoriasis and the effect of the body image appraisal on sexual functions and satisfaction. In all, 216 individuals were included in the study, and 112 of them had psoriasis; 104 individuals who never experienced any skin problems participated in the study and answered questions that assess depression and anxiety levels, sexual problems and satisfaction, as well as body image appraisal.

Integrated assessment of visual perception abnormalities in psychotic disorders and relationship with clinical characteristics.

Background: The visual system is recognized as an important site of pathology and dysfunction in schizophrenia. In this study, we evaluated different visual perceptual functions in patients with psychotic disorders using a potentially clinically applicable task battery and assessed their relationship with symptom severity in patients, and with schizotypal features in healthy participants.

Methods: Five different areas of visual functioning were evaluated in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder (n = 28) and healthy control subjects (n = 31) using a battery that included visuospatial working memory (VSWM), velocity discrimination (VD), contour integration, visual context processing, and backward masking tasks.

Executive Functions of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Panic Disorder Patients in Comparison to Healty Controls.

Introduction: Patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have impaired cognitive functions, including attention, verbal and visual memory, and visual-spatial abilities as well as executive function But some studies did not show any disturbance in executive function of patients with OCD. To date, only few studies have been conducted on neuropsychological functioning of patients with panic disorder (PD). There are limited studies to reach a definite conclusion on executive functions of patients with OCD and those with PD.

[Deleterious Results of Safety Seeking Behaviours in Panic Disorder: Polydipsia and Diabetes Mellitus Type 2].

Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder that involves recurrent panic attacks, which emerge when a harmless stimulus is interpreted as "catastrophic". In an attempt to avoid the panic attack or prevent confrontation, the patient exhibits a dysfunctional attitude and behavior, such as evasion and safety-seeking behavior (SSB). Dysfunctional behavior leads to an increase in the recurrence of panic attacks and affects the patient's life in a negative way.

Social Anxiety and Quality of Life in Vitiligo and Acne Patients with Facial Involvement: A Cross-Sectional Controlled Study.

Background: Vitiligo and acne vulgaris, commonly affecting the face, have significant psychological effects and impair the quality of life of the affected individuals. Because of their negative effect on physical appearance, these conditions may act as a potential barrier to social relationships and cause social anxiety.

Objective: The objective of the study was to investigate the social anxiety, quality of life, anxiety, and depression levels of acne and vitiligo patients with facial involvement and compare these levels with healthy controls.

Attentional Bias and Training in Social Anxiety Disorder.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most effective treatment modalities for social anxiety disorder (SAD), showing a high level of clinical evidence supporting its effectiveness. On the other hand, lack of the desired benefit from this treatment in some patients causes continuation of the search for new techniques. Recent research studies have focused on attentional bias and attention training in SAD.

The association of tattooing/body piercing and psychopathology in adolescents: a community based study from Istanbul.

We aimed to investigate the association of psychopathology with tattooing and body piercing among adolescents in Istanbul by means of self-report questionnaires. Tenth, eleventh and twelfth grade students from 2 high schools in Istanbul with a total number of 607 participated in the study. The Youth Self Report, Children's Depression Inventory and a detailed semi-structured inquiry assessing tattooing, body piercing and some psychiatric and psychosocial variables were administered to the students.

[Executive function differences between first episode and recurrent major depression patients].

Objectives: The differences between recurrent episodes and first episode depression among depressive patients in terms of executive functions had not previously been investigated. In this study, we aimed to explore executive function differences between patient groups with depression and healthy control subjects.

Method: 19 first episode sufferers of depression, 14 sufferers of recurrent major depression and 33 healthy subjects, selected as suitable with regard to gender and educational level, were enrolled in this study.

[Assessment of executive functions in social phobia patients using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test].

Objective: Problem solving and adjusting responses according to feedback are among the executive functions that may be impaired in social phobia patients. The objective of this study was to compare social phobia patients' Wisconsin Card Sorting Test scores with those of controls; thus, our aim was to examine executive functions in social phobia patients.

Method: The study included 36 social phobia patients (16 female [44.

Adult strabismus and social phobia: a case-controlled study.

Purpose: To determine the social phobia rate, social anxiety level, severity of depressive symptoms, and disease-related disability in adult strabismus patients.

Methods: Forty-nine strabismus patients and 46 control subjects from 15 to 65 years of age were evaluated. A psychiatric interview focusing on social phobia and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) were administered to each participant.

Memory bias in anorexia nervosa: evidence from directed forgetting.

The aim of this study was to examine memory bias for disorder-relevant information in anorexia nervosa by using the directed forgetting paradigm. Normal controls and patients with anorexia nervosa were given a list consisting of neutral and disorder-relevant words, which they were either asked to remember (R) or forget (F). Memory performance was measured by a free recall and a Yes/No recognition task for all items.

Memory and metamemory for semantic information in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Several studies have been conducted on OCD patients' memory and metamemory performance in episodic tasks. However, there is a clear lack of research addressing these issues for semantic memory (i.e.

Citalopram-induced SIADH in a hypertensive patient on salt restricted diet.

Hyponatraemia is a very rare but potentially fatal complication of SSRIs and citalopram therapy, especially during the first weeks of treatment and for those who concomitantly use medications known to cause hyponatraemia. We present a 54-year-old hypertensive female patient who was admitted to the hospital with drowsiness, paresthesia, fatigue, nausea, vomiting and visual hallucinations and who was diagnosed to have syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) due to citalopram. All her presenting symptoms disappeared after discontinuation of citalopram therapy, fluid restriction and a careful hypertonic saline infusion.

[Social phobia in essential tremor].

Objectives: This study is aimed to determine the frequency of social phobia among a group of subjects with essential tremor, to compare subject groups with and without social phobia with regard to the level of social phobia and disability, and to study the effect of the severity of social phobia on disability in essential tremor.

Method: 45 subjects, diagnosed with essential tremor were included in the study, and their severity of tremor and essential tremor-related functional impairment were determined. Subjects were evaluated in 2 groups; those with a social phobia diagnosis and those without, as determined with the SCID-I interview.

Geriatric psychiatry consultations in a Turkish university hospital.

Objective: The size of the elderly population is growing rapidly in Turkey. We aimed to characterize geriatric psychiatry consultations to obtain the characteristic pattern of these patients for further interventions.

Method: A retrospective chart review was undertaken for each patient.

Interrater reliability and clinical efficacy of Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale in an outpatient setting.

Objective: To evaluate the interrater reliability of the Turkish version of the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) and to measure the clinical efficacy using a clinician-rated impression scale in a clinical outpatient setting.

Method: Data were collected from 19 nonmedicated children and adolescents (6 girls, 13 boys, mean age 14 +/- 2.25 years) with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Right basal ganglion hypoperfusion in obsessive compulsive disorder patients demonstrated by Tc-99m-HMPAO brain perfusion spect: a controlled study.

The aim of this study is to demonstrate the regional cerebral blood flows (rCBF) of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients compared to controls by using Tc-99m-HMPAO SPECT. Sixteen OCD and seven control subjects were admitted into the study. Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Rating Scale (Y-BOCS), Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), and Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS) were applied to the patients.

Memory and metamemory in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Studies on the link between checking and memory problems have produced equivocal results regarding a general memory deficit in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and subclinical checkers. However, there is clear and consistent evidence that patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) show lack of confidence in their memory performance. The purpose of the present study was to investigate memory and metamemory performance (feeling-of-knowing judgments) for neutral and threat-related material in three groups: OCD patients (OCs), subclinical checkers (SCs), and normal controls (NCs).