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Istanbul Erenköy Mental Health and Neu... Publications | LitMetric

52 results match your criteria: "Istanbul Erenköy Mental Health and Neurological Diseases Training and Research Hospital[Affiliation]"

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  • Sleep apnea headache (SAH) is characterized as a recurring, throbbing headache that occurs upon waking, linked to obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and diagnosed through polysomnography with an apnea-hypopnea index of at least 5.
  • A study performed at a sleep center analyzed clinical and polysomnographic data of patients with SAH, separating them into varying severities of OSAS, while excluding those with different morning headaches or under treatment.
  • Results showed significant differences between patients with SAH and those without, including higher sleepiness scores and more frequent limb movement in SAH sufferers, alongside notable contrasts in sleep quality and wake times.
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Detection of serum alterations in polysubstance use patients by FT-Raman spectroscopy.

Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc

February 2025

Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep Islam, Science and Technology University, Gaziantep, Türkiye. Electronic address:

Substance use disorders pose significant health risks and treatment challenges due to the diverse interactions between substances and their impact on physical and mental health. The chemical effects of multiple substance use on bodily fluids are not yet fully understood. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the chemical changes induced by a combination of substances compared to a control group.

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  • Mental disorders impact about 15%-20% of children, yet many do not receive adequate mental health care, making psychiatric emergency services crucial for treatment.
  • The study analyzed data from 785 patients aged 0-18 who visited a psychiatric emergency department over a year, categorizing them as either single or repeated applicants based on their number of visits.
  • Findings revealed that recurrent applicants exhibited higher instances of non-suicidal self-injury, psychotic disorders, and major depression, suggesting specific risk factors that contribute to multiple emergency admissions and indicating a need for tailored community resources.
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Anxiety comorbidity in bipolar disorder (BD) is important and thus significantly affects the course of BD and its outcomes. The treatment of generalized anxiety disorder comorbid with BD involves certain challenges, as antidepressant medications, which are standard in the treatment of anxiety disorder, have the risk of shifting to manic episodes and rapid cycling. In this case report, the response to agomelatine treatment in generalized anxiety disorder comorbid with bipolar 1 disorder was evaluated.

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Background: Coercive treatments can lead to ethical, legal, and clinical concerns, especially in emergency settings. The indications and characteristics of patients for whom physical restraint is indicated should be well-evaluated in order to prevent unnecessary practices. The aim of this study was to comprehensively assess the physical restraint practices in psychiatric emergencies and clinical characteristics related to their use.

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Background: Migraine is a disease characterized by headache attacks. The disease is multifactorial in etiology and genetic and environmental factors play role in pathogenesis. Migraine can also be accompanied by psychiatric disorders like neurotism and obsessive compulsive disorder.

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Electrodiagnostic methods to verify Guillain-Barré syndrome subtypes in Istanbul: A prospective multicenter study.

J Peripher Nerv Syst

March 2024

Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Background And Aims: This study aimed to identify the clinical characteristics and electrodiagnostic subtypes of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in Istanbul.

Methods: Patients with GBS were prospectively recruited between April 2019 and March 2022 and two electrodiagnostic examinations were performed on each patient. The criteria of Ho et al.

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Introduction: Opioid withdrawal is one of the most critical complications of opioid use disorder. In this study, we aimed to examine the possible risk of ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death by calculating electrocardiography (ECG) changes, the markers of ventricular repolarization, in opioid withdrawal.

Methods: A total of 90 patients diagnosed with opioid withdrawal who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included in the study.

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Aim: This study examined the experiences of Syrian refugees in a community centre in Turkiye as they access mental health services and receive psychiatric nursing care.

Design: A qualitative design was adopted in the study.

Methods: Data were collected from southern Turkiye between November and December 2021.

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Non-invasive brain stimulation on clinical symptoms in multiple sclerosis patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Mult Scler Relat Disord

October 2023

Neuromodulation Center and Center for Clinical Research Learning, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Background: Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) has demonstrated mixed effects on the clinical symptoms of multiple sclerosis. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effects of NIBS techniques on the most common symptoms of MS.

Methods: A literature search was performed until October 2022 which included randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies that used sham-controlled NIBS in patients with MS.

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Background: Intravenous immune globulin (IVIg) is frequently used in some neurological diseases and is also the first-line therapy in Guillain-Barré syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, and multifocal motor neuropathy. We aimed to evaluate the frequency and characteristics of headaches, which is one of the most common side effects of IVIg treatment.

Methods: Patients who received IVIg treatment for neurological diseases were prospectively enrolled in 23 centers.

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Goffman defines stigma as a disgrace and social outcast/disqualification. Individuals with substance disorder are exposed to stigma at certain periods of their lives. Stigma particularly affects their thoughts, behaviors, and treatment processes, as well as their social life and identity perception.

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Objective: Many neurobiological, genetic, environmental, and spiritual factors are involved in addiction etiology. This study aims to examine parental perceptions, attachment styles, and parental attitudes.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study.

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Objective: This study was designed to investigate the traumatic stress levels, participants demonstrating higher than post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) cutoff, thus PTSD possibility, levels, and related factors of patients who felt the need to apply to the outpatient clinic for the 1st time during the first period of the outbreak of the pandemic as a traumatic event, when many psychiatry outpatient clinics were mostly closed to face-to-face admissions. In our research, we targeted three objectives. First, we evaluated PTSD as indicated with measure cutoff points and post-traumatic stress symptom (PTSS) rates among the individuals who were admitted to an outpatient psychiatric clinic for the 1st time, 3 months after the first COVID-19 case was reported in Turkiye.

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Objective: The social and legal problems caused by substance use necessitate compulsory treatment. Individuals with substance use disorder who also have attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more frequently prone to crime and more severe substance use. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ADHD on the treatment compliance.

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Psychiatric training in perinatal mental health across Europe.

Arch Womens Ment Health

April 2022

Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

Perinatal mental illness is associated with considerable maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. However, there are currently no specific guidelines on the standards and structure of postgraduate perinatal psychiatric training in Europe. We describe the characteristics of available and desired specialist perinatal psychiatry training from the perspective of European psychiatrists in training.

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Persistent negative symptoms (PNS) contribute to impairment in psychosis. The characteristics of PNS seen in youth remained under-investigated. We aimed to demonstrate clinical, treatment-related, and psychosocial characteristics of PNS in early-onset schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (EOSD).

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic might impact substance use behaviours around the globe. In this study, we investigate changes in alcohol and tobacco use in the second half of 2020 in countries of the eastern part of the WHO European Region.

Methods: Self-reported changes in alcohol and tobacco use among 11 295 adults from 18 countries in the eastern part of the WHO European Region were collected between August 2020 and January 2021.

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The concept of food addiction (FA) has become central in recent years in understanding the psychological etiology of obesity. In this matched case-control study from Turkey, it was aimed to examine the prevalence of FA and related risk factors in four consecutive body mass index (BMI) categories. The case group consisted of pre-operative bariatric surgery patients with BMI over 35.

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Introduction: Varying public views on cannabis use across countries may explain the variation in the prevalence of use, policies, and research in individual countries, and global regulation of cannabis. This paper aims to describe the current state of cannabis use, policies, and research across sixteen countries.

Methods: PubMed and Google Scholar were searched for studies published from 2010 to 2020.

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Corticobasal syndrome (CBS) is one of the Parkinson-plus disorders. While initially defined as a movement disorder rather than cognition, it is now known that CBS is related to various psychiatric symptoms. We describe a patient clinically diagnosed with CBS whose initial presentation was psychiatric and rather atypical.

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Background: The geriatric population is supposed to be at high risk for psychological distress as well as adverse outcomes and mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate the levels of depression, anxiety, death anxiety and life satisfaction levels and factors related to life satisfaction in individuals aged 65 years and older during the pandemic and to compare these variables between nursing home (NH) and community-dwelling older adults.

Method: This study has a cross-sectional and descriptive design, and a total of 133 nursing NH and community-dwelling older adults were enrolled in the study.

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