Ölüm iyiliği fenomeni

Year 2016, Volume: 41 Issue: 3, 559 - 563, 30.09.2016

Mehmet Emin Demirkol Lut Tamam

https://doi.org/10.17826/cukmedj.237519

Abstract

Psikiyatrik ve nörolojik hastalıklarda, hastalığın genel seyrinin aksine ölümden kısa süre önce zihin açıklığı yaşanması, hastalık semptomlarının iyileşme göstermesi son 250 yıldır literatürde yer almasına rağmen yeteri kadar ilgi görmemiştir. İngilizce kaynaklarda ‘terminal lucidity’ olarak yer alan bu durum Türkçe’ye ‘Son dönem zihin açıklığı fenomeni’ (ölüm iyiliği) olarak çevrilebilir. Terminal lucidity fenomeni; demans, şizofreni, beyin absesi, beyin tümörü, inme ve duygudurum bozukluklarında görülebilir. Bu fenomenin sebeplerinin, nörobiyolojisinin açıklığa kavuşturulması, bahsedilen hastalıklar için yeni tedavi yöntemlerinin geliştirilmesine ve ölümden önceki son zamanların hastalar ve hasta yakınları açısından daha mutlu geçirilmesine katkıda bulunacaktır.

Keywords

Ölüm iyiliği, demans, şizofreni

Terminal lucidity phenomena

Abstract

Unexpected symptom remission in psychiatric and neurologic disesases shortly before patients’ death have been known since last 250 years but not received enough attention. This phenomenon is called terminal lucidity. Terminal lucidity can be experienced at patients with diagnosis of dementia, schizophrenia, brain abscess, brain tumour, stroke and mood disorders. Explanatory models about reasons and neurobiology of this phenomenon will contribute to develop new treatment strategies about mentioned diseases and to pass the last times before death better

Keywords

Terminal lucidity, dementia, schizophrenia

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