Sexual violence has been defined as all kinds of sexual acts against the will of the victim. It is considered as one of the most traumatic experiences with regards to its physical, psychological and social effect. Although in the legal system, the laws are enforced to penalize the perpetrator, in society, people have a number of stereotypes and myths against the victim. While sexual assault already triggers many mental illnesses on the victim; accusing attitudes towards the victim generates a great risk for repetitive traumatic effect. Thus, it is drastically important to investigate rape myths. Rape myths are biased false beliefs and directly target the victim. They create a large amount of risks to legitimize rapes, to perceive crime and perpetrators relatively positive, to decrease the amount of penalty, and to encourage masculine sexual violence. Accusing the victim restrains the victim from applying to judicial authorities and medical institutions to seek for his/her rights, along with disrupting the healing and rehabilitation process of the victim. A number of studies demonstrated that individuals with high just word belief were more likely to legitimize rapes. Believing that the world is a just place and everybody gets what they deserve leads to look for reasons, that is, rape victims deserve what happened to them. This study aims to review the literature on sexual violence, to focus on the negative consequences of the accusing attitudes towards the victim in terms woman’s right and mental health and to increase the awareness of this issue as an addition to the limited number of studies in Turkey.

The transport of organelles through an axon into the cell is very important for the maintenance and function of a neuron. Antherograde axonal transport plays a role in the supply of distal synapse and mitochondrial proteins and lipids for local energy requirements, and is involved in intracellular transport of retrograde transport, misfolded and aggregated proteins from the axon and distal trophic sites to the somatic. Axonal transport can be affected by changes to various components of the transport mechanism. Here we review the available information about axonal transport defects that may contribute to the pathogenesis of certain neurodegenerative diseases.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation is an effective treatment option for treatment resistant depressive disorder. The presented case suggests that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation might be effective in inhibition of binge eating and purging behaviors. This case suggests that left dorsolateral prefrontal stimulation with high frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation could be a potential treatment option for bulimia nervosa comorbid with depressive disorder

Controversies emerged in linking middle cranial fossa-arachnoid cyst to psychosis. Despite the anatomical association between such cyst and psychosocial behaviour, still several features of the cyst itself hamper causation. I report a case of a young female labeled refractory schizophrenia who presented with antipsychotic toxicity overlooking an arachnoid cyst in the middle cranial fossa. Due to the paucity of information in the literature on such association here I discuss further implications from a first medical encounter, from a patient’s perspective and from a disposition perspective as well.

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The aim of this study was to examine the validity and the reliability of the Turkish version of ADHD DSM scale. ADHD DSM Scale was applied in a sample of 225 persons. Simultaneously Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Self-report Scale (ASRS) scale was also applied and DİVA interview was used to ascertain the diagnosis in 45 indiviuals with suspected ADHD. The reliability, concurrrent validity and construct validity which is detected by factor analysis was found to be adequate. The Turkish Version of ADHD DSM Scale is a reliable and valid tool for scanning ADHD symptoms in adults.

This study aimed to investigate the radiation attenuation properties of seven brain regions namely Frontal, Occipital, Parietal, Temporal cortexes, Hippocampus, Thalamus and Cerebellum in terms of their elemental compositions. Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code System-extended (MCNPX) version 2.6.0 (Los Alamos National Lab, USA) general purpose Monte Carlo code has been employed in order to calculate the mass attenuation coefficients of those aforementioned brain regions. A satisfactory agreement has been obtained on the mass attenuation coefficients (µ/ρ) calculated by MCNPX and XCOM for those brain regions under investigation. The results underlined that Cerebellum has the highest mass attenuation coefficients in terms of the radiological energy values. This can be explained by the elemental mass fraction value of Chlorine (Cl) in Cerebellum. It could be deduced that the intensity of diagnostic radiation can be more attenuated in Cerebellum than rest of the brain regions during the brain CT or brain PET examinations. The data from the present paper would be useful for the use of standard simulation geometry and mass attenuation coefficients for medical physics as well as the applications of radiation physics.

To evaluate the effect of mobile phone usage on adolescents’ sleep quality. This descriptive study took place from January 13- 15, 2016 with 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students enrolled at Konya High School (n=380, 51.6% female, age 16.05±0.87). A questionnaire was used for data collection and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to measure the sleep quality of the students. Students received their first mobile phones at an average age of 12.29±1.41). They used their phones 3.03±2.18 hours per day on average, mostly for text messaging (89.5%). Average sleeping time was 7.34±1.22 hours when the next day was not a school day, and 9.11±1.79 hours when the next day was a school day. Sleep quality of the students decreased as the duration of mobile phone usage increased (p<0.01). Using the PSQI scale, it was determined that 20.5% of the students with good sleep quality and 79.5% of the students with poor sleep quality delayed their bedtime in favor of continued usage of their phone (p<0.05). Mobile phones should be removed from the bedrooms of adolescents. Parents should control their children’s mobile phone usage and contents.

Hemiplegia is a neurological deficit affecting one half of the body. For this reason, it affects daily life activities mainly nutrition and causes addiction to other individuals. The aim of our study is to evaluate the nutritional status of individuals with hemiplegia and the factors that affect them. Work ethic committee approval Recep Tayyip Erdogan University was taken from the Ethics Committee of NonInterventional Studies. It was held between 1 May 2017 and 31 October 2017. In randomly selected patients based on volunteerism from the hemiplegic patients lying in Trabzon Maça Ömer Burhanoğlu Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Center. The NRS 2002 evaluation form and the questionnaire form consisting of socio-demographic features and other information created by us were made by the face-to-face method. The data were analyzed using chi-square and Student’s t-tests; p <0.05 was considered significant. A total of 97 patients were included in the study. Of these, 42 (43.3%) were women; 55 (56.7%) were male. The mean age was 47.16 ± 19.46 (min8, max 93). 63 (62.9%) had at least 1 chronic disease. Preliminary evaluation of the NRS 2002 was performed and 33 (34%) of the subjects were evaluated with main evaluation. 13 (39.4%) were determined to be at a risk of nutritional. Nutritional disorder is an important health problem in patients with hemiplegia as in all stroke patients. Although there was no significant relationship between nutritional status and factors questioned in our study. However, as nutrition is a multi-factorial situation, larger studies are needed in this regard.

In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the self esteem, depression levels and nonfunctional attitudes of gifted and talented adolescents. For this purpose, a total of N = 94 participants, n = 45 girls and n = 49 males, who are in a high school 9th grade (N = 52) and 12th grade (N = 42) The Rosenberg Self-Respect Scale was applied. As a result of the research, it is concluded that the attitudes of the 9th grade students are not related to the self-esteem and depression characteristics, while the students who study at the 12th grade are related. According to these results, it is observed that as the ages of the gifted children increase, a significant relationship is developed especially in the opposite direction with respect to independence, perfectionist and variable attitudes, and depressive characteristics. It has been argued that the characteristics of the young people, both individualizing and not wanting to make mistakes, are an important factor in self-esteem and their effects on their emotions.