the short and long term effects of chromium toxicity on brain catecholamines and acetylcholinesterase levels were investigated. rats were injected daily with varying amounts of chromium. the short term (2 h) administration of chromium (8 mmol/kg) reduced catecholamines level of cerebellum, mid-brain and brain-cortex by 22.8, 19.4 and 21.2% respectively. acetylcholinesterase activity was also re...

BACKGROUND Persons with neurological conditions and their families face a number of challenges with the provision of health and community-based services. The purpose of this study was to understand the existing health and community service needs and gaps in care and to use this information to develop a model to specify factors and processes that may improve the quality of care and health and we...

tuberculous meningitis (tbm) and acute bacterial meningitis (abm) cause substantial mortality and morbidity in both children and adults. identification of poor prognostic factors at patient's admission could prepare physicians for more aggressive monitoring of patients with meningitis. the objective of this study was to determine the predictive value of neurological features to differentiate ab...

many studies concerning persian history have been performed. persian physicians and scientists greatly contributed to medical sciences by their own observations, experimentations and skills through more than seven thousand years of persian history. in persian medieval medicine, different fields were described. among these fields, neurological disorders, especially headache and epilepsy were exp...

BACKGROUND Patients with long-term neurological conditions often have low levels of physical activity and participation in exercise. Exercise referral schemes have been introduced in the UK to encourage physical activity in sedentary and clinical populations but typically exclude patients with long-term neurological conditions. We have developed and evaluated an exercise support system for peop...

many patients fear about neurological disorders because of mistrust to their judgments. reality is that neurological system is one of the simplest systems, but unfortunately we discuss about it in a form that induce fear to people. suppose that an old person hospitalized for cerebro-vascular accident (cva) and increased intracranial pressure (icp). results of your assessment can increase patien...

clinical neurology has been traditionally considered as an academic speciality in which the specialist regurgitates his/her knowledge of neurology without being able to do much for the patient. this attitude is no longer acceptable. surge of information and discoveries in neurosciences within the last two decades translated into therapeutic interventions which is literally life saving in some o...