{"title":"Evaluation of Simple Markers of Inflammation and Systemic Immune Inflammation Index in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder Patients and Healthy Controls.","authors":"Ali Inaltekin, İbrahim Yağci","doi":"10.5080/u26248","DOIUrl":"10.5080/u26248","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), monocyte-lymphocyte ratio (MLR), mean platelet volume (MPV), and systemic immune inflammation index (SII) are recently used as indicators of inflammation. NLR, PLR, MLR, and MPV have been evaluated in many studies in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. However, there are no studies investigating SII. This study aims to evaluate NLR, PLR, MLR, MPV and SII values and complete blood count elements in patients hospitalized with diagnoses of the schizophrenia with psychotic episode and bipolar disorder with manic episode by comparing them with the control group.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A total of 149 patients who were hospitalized with the diagnoses of the schizophrenia with psychotic episode and bipolar disorder with manic episode and who met the inclusion criteria were included in our study where the control group was composed of 66 healthy individuals. White blood cell (WBC), neutrophil, lymphocyte, platelet, and monocyte counts were obtained retrospectively from complete blood counts at the time of admission, based on which NLR, PLR, MLR, and SII were calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In this study, higher NLR, PLR, and SII values and lower MPV and lymphocyte counts were observed in schizophrenia patients compared to the control group. NLR, PLR, and SII values and neutrophil counts were higher in patients with bipolar disorder compared to the control group. Lower MPV values were found in patients with schizophrenia compared to patients with bipolar disorder.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Simple inflammatory and SII values in our study indicate the presence of low-grade systemic inflammation in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":47266,"journal":{"name":"Turk Psikiyatri Dergisi","volume":"34 1","pages":"11-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10552167/pdf/turkpsychiatry-34-11.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9194527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Body Focused Repetitive Behavior Disorders: Behavioral Models and Neurobiological Mechanisms.","authors":"Hande Günal Okumuş, Devrim Akdemir","doi":"10.5080/u26213","DOIUrl":"10.5080/u26213","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB) is an umbrella term for undesirable, repetitive motor activities such as Trichotillomania (TTM), Skin Picking Disorder (SPD), nail biting, cheek chewing, lip biting, finger sucking, finger cracking and teeth grinding. Such behaviors are engaged in to eliminate a part of the body and may result in impaired functionality. The frequency of presentation to clinicians is low since BFRB are defined as harmless, although the number of studies on this condition has increased rapidly recently, including those making a clear determination of epidemiological data, those investigating the etiopathogenesis and those providing treatment guidelines, although they remain inadequate. The present study provides a review of studies investigating the etiology of BFRB to date.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Articles published between 1992 and 2021 stored in the Pubmed, Medline, Scopus and Web of Science databases were reviewed, and the prominent research studies of the condition identified were included in the evaluation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Studies investigating the etiopathogenesis of BFRB were found in most cases to investigate adult populations, and were hampered by such confounding factors as clinical heterogeneity, high rates of comorbid psychiatric diseases and small sample sizes. The identified studies reveal that attempts have been made to explain BFRB based on behavioral models, and that the condition is inherited at a high rate. Treatment planning is mostly associated with monoamine systems (especially glutamate and dopamine) and interventions were directed to addiction elements. Furthermore, cognitive flexibility and motor inhibition defects in neurocognitive area and cortico-striato-thalamocortical cycle abnormalities in neuroimaging studies have been reported.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Studies investigating the clinical features, incidence, etiopathogenesis and treatment of BFRB, which holds a controversial place in psychiatric classification systems, would contribute to a better understanding of the disease and a more appropriate definition of the condition.</p>","PeriodicalId":47266,"journal":{"name":"Turk Psikiyatri Dergisi","volume":"34 1","pages":"50-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10552165/pdf/turkpsychiatry-34-50.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9198930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Validity and Reliability Study of Mental Health Recovery Measure's Turkish Version.","authors":"Rüveyda Yüksel, Hülya Arslantaş, Ferhan Dereboy, Mehtap Kizilkaya, Seher Inalkaç","doi":"10.5080/u26480","DOIUrl":"10.5080/u26480","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The present study aims to translate into Turkish and investigate the validity and reliability of the Mental Health Recovery Measure (MHRM).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The sample consisted of 343 outpatients - and in-patients under treatment for a variety of psychiatric diagnoses at a state hospital and a university research hospital. The MHRM along with the Subjective Recovery Assessment Scale (SRAS), Psychological Well Being Scale (PWBS), Emotional Eating Scale (EES), and The Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (ISMI).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean MHRM total score was estimated at 31.66 (sd=10.02). Exploratory factor analysis revealed one single robust factor explaining 64% of the variance of the total scores. Alpha internal consistency coefficient was calculated as 0.94 and corrected item-total correlation coefficients were entirely above 0.60. The MHRM scores showed positive and strong correlations with the PWBS (r=0.695; p<0.001) and SRAS (r=0.732; p<0.001), negative and strong correlation with the ISMI (r=-0.696; p<0.001) and no correlation with the EES scores (r=-0.021; p=0.703).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our data provides initial evidence supporting the validity and reliability of the Turkish MHRM in evaluating the tendency for recovery of mental health consumers for clinical and research purposes. Further studies addressing psychometric properties of the scale are warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":47266,"journal":{"name":"Turk Psikiyatri Dergisi","volume":"34 2","pages":"110-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10552175/pdf/turkpsychiatry-34-110.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9688077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Etiopatogenesis in the Development of Borderline Personality Charecteristics in Children and Adolescents","authors":"Onat Yetim, Özhan Yalçın","doi":"10.5080/u26852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5080/u26852","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47266,"journal":{"name":"Turk Psikiyatri Dergisi","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136304636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Özge Akgül, Betül Önder Uzgan, Melike Tetik, Cansu Aykaç
{"title":"Fear, Perceived Threat, and Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Control/Flexibility and Intolerance of Uncertainty","authors":"Özge Akgül, Betül Önder Uzgan, Melike Tetik, Cansu Aykaç","doi":"10.5080/u27017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5080/u27017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47266,"journal":{"name":"Turk Psikiyatri Dergisi","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136304922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mehmet Ünler, Sultan Efsun Tamdemir, İrem Ekmekçi Ertek, Zehra Arikan
{"title":"Clozapine-Induced Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms and Augmentation with Clonazepam: Risks and Rationales.","authors":"Mehmet Ünler, Sultan Efsun Tamdemir, İrem Ekmekçi Ertek, Zehra Arikan","doi":"10.5080/u27025","DOIUrl":"10.5080/u27025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Obsessive-compulsive symptoms induced by clozapine negatively affect treatment compliance. In some studies, clonazepam was shown to be beneficial in obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, in literature there are case reports of life-threatening complications associated with the combined use of clozapine and benzodiazepines. In this article, the efficacy and safety of the clonazepam augmentation were discussed in two patients who had obsessive-compulsive symptoms induced by clozapine. No life-threatening complications were detected during the follow-up period of more than two years, and the patients benefited dramatically from the addition of clonazepam. In treatment-resistant patients, clonazepam can be used with close monitoring for obsessivecompulsive symptoms associated with atypical antipsychotics. Keywords: Atypical antipsychotics, clonazepam, clozapine, obsessivecompulsive symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":47266,"journal":{"name":"Turk Psikiyatri Dergisi","volume":"34 1","pages":"60-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10552166/pdf/turkpsychiatry-34-60.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9256801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mihriban Heval Ozgen, Ozgun Yagmur, Jae Sevelius, Cato MH de Vos
{"title":"Online Group Psychotherapy to Increase Self-acceptance and Reduce Shame Among Transgender Migrants: An Observational Report","authors":"Mihriban Heval Ozgen, Ozgun Yagmur, Jae Sevelius, Cato MH de Vos","doi":"10.5080/u27170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5080/u27170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47266,"journal":{"name":"Turk Psikiyatri Dergisi","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134888602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}