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Psychiatry

Clinical Neuroscience

MARCH 30, 2024

Personalized analysis of pain–weather associations: a pilot study

TUBOLY Gábor , HORVÁTH Gyöngyi , NAGY Kamilla , NAGY Edit

It is a wellknown belief that weather can influence human health, including pain sensation. However, the current data are controversial, which might be due to the wide range of interindividual differences. The present study aimed to characterize the individual pain–weather associations during chronic pain by utilizing several data analytical methods.

Clinical Neuroscience

MARCH 30, 2024

Neuropathic pain and mood disorders in earthquake survivors with peripheral nerve injuries

HALIL Can ALAYDIN, GUL Melisa BOZDOGAN, RUMEYSA PALTACI, ZULFIKAR ARLIER, HALIT FIDANCI, MEHMET YILDIZ

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, frequently result in mood disorders among affected individuals. It is established that neuropathic pain arising from traumatic neuropathies is also linked to mood disorders. This study investigates the influence of neuropathic pain on the development of mood disorders in earthquake survivors with peripheral nerve injuries, following the earthquake centered in Kahramanmaraş on February 6, 2023.

Clinical Neuroscience

MARCH 30, 2024

Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Informant Assessment of Geriatric Delirium Scale

CELIK Buket , BILIK Ozlem, KOÇBILEK Deveci Zeynep , DAMAR Turhan Hale , ÖZ Didem , DENIZMEN Zeynep

Delirium is a common complication developing in el­derly patients. Therefore, it is important to diagnose delirium earlier. Family caregivers play an active role in early diagnosis of de­lirium and build a bridge between health professionals and patients. The purpose of this research was to achieve the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Informant Assessment of Geriatric Delirium Scale (I­AGeD).

Lege Artis Medicinae

MARCH 26, 2024

[Blooming again – women’s life paths after brain injury ]

MASÁT Orsolya, BÁLINT Brigitta, BOLLA Brigitta, GORJANÁCZ Ilona, SIPOS Hédi, BÚZÁS Lili, DÉNES Zoltán

[After a serious brain injury or trauma, there is damaged the functional capacity of the affected persons and their self-image too. Traditional rehabilitation pays little attention to the female patients’ lost femininity. The aim of this study was to present the way of supporting women to realize again their femininity psychologically and physically alike after a brain injury.

In the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit of the National Institute for Medical Rehabilitation, the authors completed the female patients’ rehabilitation with special group sessions once a week. The topics were tailored to the needs of participants. There were targeted two specific objectives: achieving to perceive femininity in an autonomous way and regaining the feeling of femininity in the changed life circumstances due to the injury.

Occupational therapist, physiotherapists and nurses provided service to develop functional abilities. A psychologist helped the participants in trauma processing. Since the beginning in January 2022, two therapy cycles have been completed so far, each of which with 10-12 sessions. A total of 31 female patients and 8 supporting team members participated in these two groups so far.

Personalised rehabilitation was adjusted to the involved persons’ life circumstances, individuality, personality, family and social relations. Our experimental female group helped the participants to experience their femininity physically, mentally and psychologically too, according to their feedback.]

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2024

Factors affecting long-term prognosis in adult patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

MELIHA TURKSEVER, BABURHAN GULDIKEN, HULYA OZKAN, MERVE Melodi CAKAR

Among epileptic patients who are monitored using the video-electroencephalography monitoring (VEM) technique, in some patients a psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES) can be identified as a definitive diagnosis. The longterm prognosis of these patients is not well known. In this study, we aimed to determine the factors that affect the prognosis of PNES. Forty-one PNES patients diagnosed using VEM between 2012 and 2022

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2024

Study protocol of the Hungarian Longitudinal Study of Healthy Brain Aging (HuBA)

BANKÓ M. Éva , WEISS Béla , HEVESI István , MANGA Annamária , VAKLI Pál , HAVADI-NAGY Menta , KELEMEN Rebeka , SOMOGYI Eszter , HOMOLYA István , BIHARI Adél , SIMON Ádám , NÁRAI Ádám , TÓTH Krisztina , BÁTHORI Noémi , TOMACSEK Vivien , HORVÁTH András , KAMONDI Anita , RACSMÁNY Mihály, DÉNES Ádám , SIMOR Péter , KOVÁCS Tibor , HERMANN Petra , VIDNYÁNSZKY Zoltán

Neurocognitive aging and the associated brain diseases impose a major social and economic burden. Therefore, substantial efforts have been put into revealing the lifestyle, the neurobiological and the genetic underpinnings of healthy neurocognitive aging. However, these studies take place almost exclusively in a limited number of highly­developed countries. Thus, it is an important open