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Publication Open Access Quality of life, problem solving, focus of control and anger tendency in the patients with acne(2014-12-01T00:00:00Z) Bagcioglu, Erman; Bahceci, Bulent; Deveci, Erdem; Ozturk, AHMET; Sasmaz, Sezai; Karaaslan, Mehmet Fatih; ÖZTÜRK, AHMET; DEVECİ, ERDEMBackground and Design: In this study, we evaluated anxiety and depression levels, levels of problem solving, focus of control, tendency to anger and quality of life in patients with acne as well as the association between those parameters and the clinical features of acne. Materials and Methods: Fifty-two patients with mild to severe acne vulgaris and 46 healthy controls were enrolled. Acne severity was graded in all patients by a dermatologist. The Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS), Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A), Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Problem Solving Inventory (PSI), The State-Trait Anger Scale (STAS), Rotter's Internal-External Focus of Control Scale (RIELCS) and the Short Form 36-Item Health Survey (SF-36) were applied to all participants. Results: In our study, we found out that anxiety and depression scores were significantly higher in patients with acne vulgaris than in controls. In BSI, anxiety disorders, depression, interpersonal sensitivity, and paranoid thoughts scores were significantly higher in patients with acne than in controls. According to SF-36, physical role difficulty, general health and mental health scores were significantly lower in patients with acne. Conclusion: The results of our study support the previous findings suggesting that acne vulgaris leads to various psychiatric problems, such as depression and anxiety and, adversely affects quality of life of patients.Publication Metadata only Diagnostic Performance of the Turkish Version of the Vancouver Obsessional Compulsive Inventory (VOCI) Versus Padua Inventory-Revised (PI-R): a Validation Study(2015-03-01T00:00:00Z) Deveci, Erdem; Boysan, Murat; Gulec, Mustafa; Barut, Yasar; DEVECİ, ERDEMObjective: The Vancouver Obsessional Compulsive Inventory (VOCI) is a self-report inventory developed to assess a wide range of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, including contamination (12 items), checking (6 items), obsessions (12 items), hoarding (7 items), just right (12 items), and indecisiveness (6 items). The English version of the VOCI has been shown to be a promising psychometric instrument, as have its French, Italian, and Spanish versions. The aim of this study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the VOCI in clinical and non-clinical samples.Publication Metadata only The effects of focused ultrasound pulsation of nucleus accumbens in opioid-dependent rats(2019-01-01) Kılıç, Alperen; Yılmaz, Onur; Nabi, Aynur; Ergün, Arif Sanlı; Bozkurt, Ayhan; Kurtulmuş, Ayşe; Öztürk, AHMET; Aydın, Mehmet Şerif; Şahan, Ebru; DEVECİ, ERDEM; ÖZTÜRK, AHMET; EŞREFOĞLU, MUKADDES; KIRPINAR, İSMETBackground: Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is the only modality proven to be effective on selective stimulation of the deep brain structures. It was previously reported that, by using DBS, stimulation of nucleus accumbens (NA), a region that plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of substance addiction, is effective for the treatment of substance addiction. Objective: The purpose of the current study was to observe how the morphine-conditioned place preference changed in rats by stimulating NA with a non-invasive method, focused ultrasound (US) and to detect whether there would be any tissue damage caused by US waves. Methods: We used low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU), a noninvasive modality, in a place conditioning model to stimulate NA in rats. Results: At the initial stage of our study, we used morphine to induce place preference. As expected, morphine administration caused significant place preference. After the place preference was obtained by morphine, we divided the rats into two groups. One group received LIFU waves to NA and the other group received only sham, that is, no stimulation with US waves. Rats in both groups were continued to receive morphine. Then, we investigated whether LIFU and sham will reduce morphine-induced place preference or not. We observed that morphine-induced place preference had an ongoing raise in the sham group while no raise was detected in the ultrasound group. Although LIFU prevented the rats from the raise, it did not cause a significant reduction of morphine preference. Conclusion: We state that there is a need for future studies to investigate the effects of low-intensity focused ultrasound as an alternative treatment modality in addiction.