Yildirim, Zeynep Karabekiroglu, Koray Yildiran, Alisan Celiksoy, Mehmet Halil Artukoglu, Bekir Baykal, Saliha Babadağı, Zehra Leckman, James
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Nordic journal of psychiatry
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a childhood-onset neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by several motor and phonic tics. In this study, we aimed to compare activated regulatory T cell (Treg) values between patients with TS/chronic tic disorder (CTD) and age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HCs). Patients with TS/CTD and age- and sex-matched HCs we...
Miniksar, Dilşad Yıldız Özdemir, Mikail
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Nordic journal of psychiatry
Although the effect of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) on sleep is not well-known, recent studies suggest an association between OCD and sleep quality. We aimed to assess sleep quality in children and adolescents with OCD and to seek its association with OCD symptoms and OCD severity. All of the subjects were assessed using DSM 5 and affective ...
Park, Seon-Cheol Kim, Gyung-Mee Kato, Takahiro A Chong, Mian-Yoon Lin, Shih-Ku Yang, Shu-Yu Avasthi, Ajit Grover, Sandeep Kallivayalil, Roy Abraham Xiang, Yu-Tao
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Network analysis provides a new viewpoint that explicates intertwined and interrelated symptoms into dynamic causal architectures of symptom clusters. This is a process called 'symptomics' and is concurrently applied to various areas of symptomatology. Using the data from Research on Asian Psychotropic Prescription Patterns for Antipsychotics (REAP...
Carvalho, Serafim Caetano, Filipa Pinto-Gouveia, José Mota-Pereira, Jorge Maia, Dulce Pimentel, Paulo Priscila, Cátia Gilbert, Paul
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Only a small number of consistent processes predict which depressed patients will achieve remission with antidepressant medication. One set of processes is that of social ranking strategies/variables that are related to life events and severe difficulties. Particularly, defeat and entrapment predict poorer response to antidepressants. However, resu...
Özdin, Selçuk Usta, Miraç Barış
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Nordic journal of psychiatry
The number of studies investigating inflammatory biomarkers in bipolar disorder has increased significantly in recent years. The neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and monocyte to lymphocyte ratio (MLR) are inexpensive and easy to obtain values used to measure the level of inflammation. This study compared the...
Bjerg Christensen, Julie Lassen, Irene Smith Helles Carlsen, Anders Strazek, Sune Nyboe, Lene
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Nordic journal of psychiatry
From 2003 to 2013 the number of patients exposed to mechanical restraint in Danish psychiatric hospitals was increased. Since, a great effort has been done to reduce mechanical restraint. The aim of this study was to assess whether physical therapy could lower the level of arousal and reduce mechanical restraint among patients with mania. 170 patie...
Lantto, Reid Jungert, Tomas Nilsson, Magnus Probert-Lindström, Sara Westling, Sofie
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Background: The Self-Harm Antipathy Scale (SHAS) is a questionnaire designed to measure nurses' attitudes towards self-harm. This can be useful to improve the quality of care provided to individuals who self-harm.Aim: The purpose of this study was to revise and adapt the SHAS for use in Sweden and evaluate the psychometric properties of this Swedis...
Gudjonsson, Snaebjorn Omar Sveinbjarnardottir, Eydis Kristin Arnardottir, Ragnheidur Harpa
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Nordic journal of psychiatry
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the level of and the relationship between symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) at admittance and recovery at discharge in patients with severe depression, in a rural inpatient psychiatric setting. Furthermore, whether the anxiety level at admission and/or, if the extent of patients...
Faurholt-Jepsen, Maria Þórarinsdóttir, Helga Vinberg, Maj Ullum, Henrik Frost, Mads Bardram, Jakob Kessing, Lars Vedel
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Nordic journal of psychiatry
Background: Most people will also experience symptoms of stress at some point. Smartphone use has increased during the last decade and may be a new way of monitoring stress. Thus, it is of interest to investigate whether automatically generated smartphone data reflecting smartphone use is associated with subjective stress in healthy individuals.Aim...
Gunes, Serkan Guvenmez, Oguz
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Aim: After the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, its cruelty and violence forced about millions to leave their homes. These experiences might create serious mental problems, especially in children and adolescents who might have an increased risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. In this study, we aimed to ...
