Highlights
Despite their major effects on positive symptoms, antipsychotics do not have a significant effect on cognition in schizophrenia
Bilateral high frequency rTMS targeting dorsolateral prefrontal cortices has been effective on working memory
Bilateral 20 Hz rTMS improved attention and verbal working memory in schizophrenia patients,
It also improved the competence of switching the perceptional set up under a disruptive effect towards new instructions, in this study
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the comorbidity of dissociative disorders in patients with bipolar disorder. Methods: Fifty-one patients who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder in euthymic state and forty-nine healty controls were included in the study. The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I), Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D), Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) and Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-28) were administered to all participants with a sociodemographic form. Results: Mean DES and CTQ-28 total scores were statistically higher in patients group than control group (p < 0.001 and p < 0.001, respectively). Emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical abuse, physical neglect and sexual abuse subscale scores of CTQ-28 were higher in patients group than healthy controls group (p = 0.002, p < 0.001, p = 0.005, p < 0.001 and p < 0.021, respectively). The rate of any dissociative disorder comorbidity was 35.4% in patients with bipolar disorder. The most frequent dissociative disorder in patient with bipolar disorder was depersonalization disorder (17.6%). There was a positive correlation between DES score and number of suicidal attempts (r = 0.284). Negative correlations were found between DES score and age of disease onset, and CTQ-28 total score and age of disease onset (r =-0.332 and r =-0.291). Conclusion: Our results have shown that dissociative disorders may be frequently accompanied in patients with bipolar disorder. Dissociation and childhood traumatic events can be related with clinical features in patients with bipolar disorder.
Aim: The COVID 19 outbreak continues today with significant morbidity and mortality. Healthcare workers have the
highest risk in this epidemic. Therefore, vaccination was first started from healthcare workers. In this study, we aimed to
examine the antibody levels of healthcare workers after vaccination.
Material and Methods: This is a retrospective study. A total of 102 healthcare workers who were given CoronaVac vaccine
and whose antibody levels were checked after vaccination were included in the study.
Results: The seventy seven (75.5%) of the cases were male, 25 (24.5%) were female, the mean age was 43.25 ± 9.97. 8
(7.8%) of the cases had previously had COVID-19. The mean antibody level was 1768.02 ± 3586.09. Antibody mean in
women was 2127.9 ± 4716.1; it was 1651.2 ± 3163.8 in men. No statistical difference was found between age and gender
and antibody level (Respectively; p=0.564, p=0.596).
Conclusion: Post-vaccination antibody development was good among healthcare workers. All of the healthcare workers
who had COVID-19 had an antibody response. There were only 3 individuals who did not develop antibody response.
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