In recent years, the development of neuroimaging techniques such as high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), or single photon emission tomography (SPECT) has promoted the identification of structural and functional characteristics underlying mental disorders to a great extent. In anxiety disorders, recent...

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Psychiatric and Clinical Neurosciences Volume 58 Issue 2 Page 222 April 2004 Abnormal somatosensory evoked potentials in two patients with conversion disorder KAZIM M. YAZICI, MEHMET DEMIRCI, BASARAN DEMIR, AND AYGUN ERTUGRUL On clinical grounds, somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) and motor evoked potentials (MEP) are currently used to discriminate between hysterical and neurological conditi...

Introduction The term “functional somatic syndrome” refers to several overlapping syndromes that are characterized mostly by symptoms, suffering, and disability and less by disease-specific abnormalities of structure or function. They include, but are not limited to, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia (FM), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and res...

background: the unified treatment approach (up), an emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy that holds emotional processes as a central target of treatment, is applicable for disorders with strong emotional components. the aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of emotion regulation intervention derivative from the up on emotional problems and quality of life among patients wit...