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Depression and anxiety among parents of phenylketonuria children

Mehmet Gunduz, Nur Arslan, Ozlem Unal, Sevim Cakar, Pınar Kuyum and Selda F. Bulbul
Neurosciences Journal October 2015, 20 (4) 350-356; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2015.4.20150319
Mehmet Gunduz
From the Division of Metabolism (Gunduz), Ankara Children’s Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, the Faculty of Medicine (Arslan, Cakar, Kuyum), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, the Erzurum Local Research Hospital (Unal), Erzurum, and the Faculty of Medicine (Bulbul), Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey
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Nur Arslan
From the Division of Metabolism (Gunduz), Ankara Children’s Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, the Faculty of Medicine (Arslan, Cakar, Kuyum), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, the Erzurum Local Research Hospital (Unal), Erzurum, and the Faculty of Medicine (Bulbul), Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey
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Ozlem Unal
From the Division of Metabolism (Gunduz), Ankara Children’s Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, the Faculty of Medicine (Arslan, Cakar, Kuyum), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, the Erzurum Local Research Hospital (Unal), Erzurum, and the Faculty of Medicine (Bulbul), Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey
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Sevim Cakar
From the Division of Metabolism (Gunduz), Ankara Children’s Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, the Faculty of Medicine (Arslan, Cakar, Kuyum), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, the Erzurum Local Research Hospital (Unal), Erzurum, and the Faculty of Medicine (Bulbul), Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey
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Pınar Kuyum
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Selda F. Bulbul
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vol. 20 no. 4 350-356
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2015.4.20150319
PubMed 
26492114

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1658-3183
History 
  • Received May 7, 2015
  • Accepted July 22, 2015
  • Published online November 13, 2020.

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Copyright: © Neurosciences Neurosciences is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

Author Information

  1. Mehmet Gunduz, MD,
  2. Nur Arslan, MD, PhD⇑,
  3. Ozlem Unal, MD,
  4. Sevim Cakar, MD,
  5. Pınar Kuyum, MD and
  6. Selda F. Bulbul, MD, PhD
  1. From the Division of Metabolism (Gunduz), Ankara Children’s Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, the Faculty of Medicine (Arslan, Cakar, Kuyum), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, the Erzurum Local Research Hospital (Unal), Erzurum, and the Faculty of Medicine (Bulbul), Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Nur Arslan, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. E-mail: nur.arslan{at}deu.edu.tr
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