Nursel Akbaba Selcukler

• Doctor of Medicine
• Resident Physician at Mayo Clinic - Rochester

In recent years, there have been changes in the approach to maternal psychiatric disorders and their effects on the fetus, with the focus redirected to the search for biological markers. Neurotrophic factors and inflammatory processes have received particular attention in the past few years. According to the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagno...

Background The current study aimed at investigating the latent dimensional structure of sleep quality as indexed by the seven components of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), as well as latent covariance structure between sleep quality, circadian preferences and depressive symptoms. Methods Two hundred twenty-five patients with major depre...

Objective: The Western-type diet is associated with an elevated risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other milder forms of cognitive impairment. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of the environmental enrichment on amyloid and tau pathology in high-fat and high-sucrose-fed rats. Methods: In total, 40 adult male rats were catego...

Individuals who differ markedly by sleep chronotype, i.e., morning-type or evening-type also differ on a number of psychological, behavioral, and biological variables. Among several other psychological functions, dissociation may also lead to disruption and alteration of consciousness, which may facilitate dream-like experiences. Our study was aime...

Introduction: In the current study we aimed to analyse the interaction between enriched environment and high-fatand, high-sucrose diet which are the risk factors for cognitive impairment and production of tau, amyloid precursor protein, amyloid-beta peptide which known have role on cognitive impairment in rats. Method: 48 Wistar albino rats were ob...

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Introduction: In the current study we aimed to determine body image, self-esteem and depressive symptomatology in women with Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and compare with healthy controls. Method: This study was conducted among the patients with untreated PCOS who admitted to the Outpatient Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Faculty of M...

Introduction Valproate (VPA) is widely used for acute and maintenance therapy of bipolar disease and it is the most prescribed drug for epilepsy treatment worldwide. VPA-induced hyperammonemia is a serious and unusual advers effect of VPA treatment. Objectives We aimed to describe the 20 year-old-woman bipolar case of VPA induced hyperammonemic en...

Peripheral edema is often associated with medical etiologies (cirrhosis, heart failure, protein deficiency, cancer, renal diseases) and drugs (NSAID, steroids, antihypertensives and immunosuppressive drugs). It is less seen side effect of psychotropic drugs. There are reports of peripheral edema during treatment with escitalopram, olanzapine, olanz...