Research interest concerning associations between sleep characteristics and suicidality in psychopathology has been growing. However, possible linkages of to terms quality chronotypes among depressive patients have not well documented. In the current study, authors investigated effects chronotype on severity symptoms suicide risk with disorder healthy controls. The study was conducted 80 clinically diagnosed major depression subjects who were demographically matched patient group. All...

Morning- and evening-type individuals differ on a number of psychological biological variables. There has been increasing interest in the relationship between chronotype personality traits. The aim this study was to investigate impulsivity suicide attempters. Eighty-nine attempters were included study, systematic information attempts recorded. Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire applied determine chronotype, attempter measured by total score Barratt Impulsiveness Scale. Significant...

Abstract Objective To investigate the comparative efficacy of aripiprazole and risperidone as augmenting agents in treatment obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) patients who did not show a ≥35% decrease Yale‐Brown Obsessive‐Compulsive Scale (Y‐BOCS) after 12‐week monotherapy with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Methods The study consists two different periods treatment: prospective period to determine resistance SSRI an 8‐week single‐blind addition for refractory only....

There are limited comparative studies on classic and new-generation antihistamines that affect sleep quality mood. The purpose of this study was to determine compare the effects quality, daytime sleepiness, dream anxiety, mood.Ninety-two patients with chronic pruritus completed in dermatology outpatient clinic. Treatments regular recommended therapeutic doses were administered. antihistaminic drugs mood, assessed first day 1 month after.Outpatients who received cetirizine hydroxyzine...

Abstract Purpose We explored the alternative of using overnight fold change in gonadotropin levels by comparing last-night-voided (LNV) and first-morning-voided (FMV) urine concentrations luteinizing hormone (LH) follicle-stimulating (FSH) as a conceptual analogy to invasive gonadotropin-releasing (GnRH) stimulation test setting. Methods investigated nocturnal changes immunoreactivity urinary gonadotropins between early late prepubertal stages well pubertal FMV LNV samples from 30 girls,...

Previous studies have indicated that obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with childhood traumatic experiences and higher levels of dissociation. Dissociative tendency may arise when individual attempt to incorporate adverse into cognitive schema.We investigated the possible links among trauma, dissociation, processes. We evaluated 95 patients OCD using Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Thought-Action Fusion Scale (TAFS), Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ-30), White Bear...

Objective: This study aimed to assess the symptoms of psychopathology caused by shift-work and evaluate their impact on quality life. Method: Forty-two nurses working at daytime 45 night shift were evaluated with Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) Short Form 36 (SF-36) for assessing general psychiatric Results: Shift-work reported significantly higher somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, paranoid ideation global severity index scores than nurses. Significant...

Variations in diurnal preferences for activity and sleep have long been classified as morning evening chronotypes. Although evening-types do not differ architecture, earlier studies revealed the association between eveningness psychopathology. However, most of these works had conducted only with patient samples. Additionally, previous research has also discovered that morning-types a healthier lifestyle than evening-types. Therefore, aim present study was to assess associations chronotypes...

Article AbstractObjective: Phototherapy, ie, bright light therapy, is an effective and safe treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). It exerts rapid mood-elevating activity, similar to antidepressant medications, most likely mediated through both monoaminergic circadian system melatonergic mechanisms. We assessed the efficiency therapy as adjuvant pharmacotherapy in patients with severe MDD randomized by Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) score either (1) 150 mg venlafaxine...

Sleep deprivation is a method, which has being used in order to comprehend the functions of sleep both healthy individuals and for patients depression with treatment, long time. The objective our present study examine relation between hormonal values, are known related effects these said changes determined mood, dissociation thought suppression after one night implementation.One was performed on total thirty-two volunteers (16 males 16 females) who were included study. Blood samples taken...

Duygudurum Profili'nin (DP) Türkçe formunun psikometrik değerlendirmesiAmaç: Profili kısa süreli duygudurum değişikliklerini değerlendirmek için geliştirilmiş olup 65 sıfat ve 6 alt ölçekten oluşmuştur.Çalışmanın amacı DP'nin Formunun çeviri yeterliğini yöntemsel hataların üstesinden gelinmesindeki

Population-based studies indicate the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is greatest in morning, during initial hours diurnal activity. The aim this pilot study was to determine whether chronotype, i.e., morningness and eveningness, impacts AMI onset time. sample comprised 63 morning- 40 evening-type patients who were classified by Horne-Östberg Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ) hospital after experiencing AMI. average wake-up bed times morning types ~2 h earlier than...