Clinical characteristics of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents with major depressive disorderOzgur Yorbik
Gulhane Military Medical Faculty, The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ankara, Turkey
J Clin Psychiatry 65:1654-9; quiz 1760-1. 2004
..Very few studies have compared the symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD) and rates of comorbid psychiatric disorders between depressed children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to reproduce and extend these findings...
Chromium, cadmium, and lead levels in urine of children with autism and typically developing controlsOzgur Yorbik
Child Psychiatry Department, Gulhane Military Medical Faculty, Etlik 06018, Ankara, Turkey
Biol Trace Elem Res 135:10-5. 2010
..These results have indicated that further studies are warranted for investigation of possible roles of heavy metals in autism...
Investigation of antioxidant enzymes in children with autistic disorderO Yorbik
GATA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey
Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 67:341-3. 2002
..These results indicate that autistic children have low levels of activity of blood antioxidant enzyme systems; if similar abnormalities are present in brain, free radical accumulation could damage brain tissue...
Dental injuries in autistic patientsCeyhan Altun
Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Center of Dental Sciences, Gulhane Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey
Pediatr Dent 32:343-6. 2010
..The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence of traumatic dental injury among Turkish children and young adults with autism and compare this to the general population of Turkish children and young adults without autism...
Anatomic evaluation of the orbitofrontal cortex in major depressive disorderAcioly L T Lacerda
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:353-8. 2004
..Future studies examining the relationship between specific symptomatic dimensions of MDD and OFC volumes could be especially informative...
Measurement of the orbitofrontal cortex: a validation study of a new methodAcioly L T Lacerda
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Neuroimage 19:665-73. 2003
..996 and 0.998. This method appears to be a valid method for measuring the OFC with excellent reliability. This uncomplicated approach is easy to apply and has the potential to be a valuable alternative to the previously published methods...
Magnetic resonance imaging study of the orbitofrontal cortex in autismAntonio Y Hardan
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Child Neurol 21:866-71. 2006
..The present study suggests the absence of global volumetric abnormalities in the orbitofrontal cortex in autism and indicates that the functional disturbances in this structure might not be related to anatomic alterations...
Morphology of the orbitofrontal cortex in first-episode schizophrenia: relationship with negative symptomatologyAcioly L T Lacerda
Interdisciplinary Lab of Neuroimaging and Cognition LiNC, Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 31:510-6. 2007
..Future follow-up studies examining high-risk individuals who subsequently develop schizophrenia at different stages of disease could be especially instructive...