**Meet the editors**

Professor Doctor Neşe Kocabaşoğlu was born in 1960 in Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated from Besiktas Ataturk Deneme High School in 1977 and from Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty in 1983. She completed her mandatory medical service in Mersin, Turkey from 1984 to 1986. In 1986, she returned to Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty and started as an assistant doctor in the Psychiatry Depart-

ment. When she became a psychiatry specialist in 1991, she started to work as a teaching assistant in the same department. In 1995, she received the title of associate professor. She became a professor in 2001 and is still a professor lecturer at the Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty. She is a founder member of the Turkish Psychiatry Association, founded in 1995 and has its headquarters in Ankara. She is also a member of the Sexual Health Institute (CİSED) in Turkey and an international member of the American Psychiatry Association. She works as the publishing secretary of the regularly published magazines New Symposium Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences Magazine as well as a publishing advisory committee member of the Okmeydani Medical Journal and Clinical Psychopharmalogical Journal. She has undertaken a large amount of research on social psychiatry and anxiety disorders. Parallel to her work, she founded the Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Psychiatry Department's Anxiety Disorders Unit. Since 2002, she has been working as the commission member of the Ministry of Justice Forensic Medicine Institution's Observation Specialization Department. She obtained the first-place award for psychiatric research in 39. National Psychiatry Congress with her work "Late Beginning in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Investigation of Factors Related to Chronic Illness". Her national and international research has been published in over 200 sources and she is currently working on multiple ongoing research. She can speak Turkish and English, is married and has a daughter.

R. Hülya Bingöl Çağlayan graduated from the Private Tarhan College in 1990. In 1997, she graduated from the English program at the Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine. From 1999 to 2001, she worked as an Assistant Doctor to Prof. Dr. H. Przuntek at the Germany Ruhr University Neurology Clinic and worked in the Chorea Huntington Center. Later, she completed her specialization in LWL

Klinik Marl-Sinsen, *Haardklinik*, at the Germany hospital, in a specialized region hospital as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist. She completed the adult psychiatry residency in LWL-Universitätsklinikum in Bochum by Prof. Dr. Georg Juckel. She returned to Turkey in 2008 and since then, she has been working at the Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine as a specialist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic.

She is specialized in cognitive behavioral therapies and psychodrama from her years as a specialist in Germany and qualified to be a child and adolescent psychotherapist. From 2012 to 2015, the Ministry of Family and Social Policies requested R. Hülya Bingöl Çağlayan to develop the Divorce Process Consultancy Project, prepare a concept book called Divorce Counseling within the scope of the project and provide the 280 personnel affiliated to the Ministry with special training.

She is still actively providing scientific consultancy for the Istanbul Autism Technical Board in the framework of the National Autism Action Plan.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Precursors 3**

Daniel J. Guerra

**Epilepsy) 51**

Luis A. Pando-Orellana

**Section 4 Stigma In Anxiety Disorders 85**

Temucin

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Anxiety Disorders and the**

**Section 2 The Epigenetics of Anxiety Disorders 11**

Chapter 2 **The Diaeventology of Anxiety Disorders 13**

**Section 3 Different Types of Anxiety Disorders 33**

**Attendance and Delivery 35**

Nese Kocabasoğlu and R. Hülya Bingöl Çağlayan

Chapter 3 **Dental Anxiety and Its Consequences to Oral Health Care**

Chapter 4 **Anxiety as an Epileptical Equivalent (Temporal Lobe**

**within a Pediatric Population 65** Fugen Neziroglu and Yvette Fruchter

Chapter 6 **Stigma in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 87**

Irene Kida Minja and Febronia Kokulengya Kahabuka

Chapter 5 **Manifestation and Treatment of OCD and Spectrum Disorders**

Gokcen Akyurek, Kubra Sahadet Sezer, Leyla Kaya and Kezban

**Section 1 Introduction 1**
