purpose our study aimed to profile the effect of fasting during the ramadan month on cognitive function in a group of healthy muslim athletes. methods eighteen male athletes underwent computerized neuropsychological testing during (fasting) and after (non-fasting) ramadan. diet was standardized, and tests were performed at 0900h and 1600h to characterize potential time-of-day (tod) interactions...

introduction: prior studies comparing hemodynamic response function (hrf) in the young and elderly adults based on fmri data have reported inconsistent findings for brain vision and motor regions in healthy aging. it is shown that the averaging method employed in all previous works has caused this inconsistency. the averaging is so sensitive to outliers and noise. however, fmri data are obscure...

purpose the aim of this study was to determine the effect of one night's sleep deprivation on anaerobic performance and reaction time of subjects in the morning of the following day. methods eighteen male college student athletes were studied twice in a balanced, randomized design. subjects were measured for peak power, mean power and reaction time. results the performance showed no significant...

background :aging can cause loss of balance, which may lead to physical and psychological problems. as the role of the otolith organs in maintaining postural stability has been emphasized in recent years, the present study investigated the effect of aging on saccular function using cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cvemp).   methods : the participants were assigned into two groups...

objective(s):neurotoxicity of anticancer drugs complicates treatment of cancer patients. vinblastine (vbl) is reported to induce motor and cognitive impairments in patients receiving chronic low-dose regimen. materials and methods: the effects of vbl treatment on motor, learning and memory functions of male and female wistar rats were studied by behavioral related tests. animals were given chro...

the infomax algorithm is a popular method in blind source separation problem. in this article an extension of the infomax algorithm is proposed that is able to separate mixed signals with any sub- or super-gaussian distributions. this ability is the results of using two different nonlinear functions and new coefficients in the learning rule. in this paper we show how we can use the distribution...

introduction: the majority of leukemia patients are acute leukemia patients, so that about 70.8% lymphoblastic leukemia were acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) patients and 66.4 % of myeloid leukemia patients were acute myeloid leukemia (aml) in tehran metropolitan. during the last two decades, intensification of therapy by the use of high-dose cytarabine allogeneic stem cell transplantation in...

here, the concept of quantum potential that has been illustrated in extended phase space (eps) in previous works is explored for its marginal behavior. unlike in configuration space, different representations of the quantum mechanics can be found in eps when exploiting appropriate canonical transformations. these canonical transformations revealed that there exist several representations in whi...