To study category verbal fluency (VF) for animals in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), mild Alzheimer disease (AD) and normal controls. Method Fifteen mild AD, 15 aMCI, and 15 normal control subjects were included. Diagnosis of AD was based on DSM-IV and NINCDS-ADRDA criteria, while aMCI was based on the criteria of the International Working Group on Mild Cognitive Impa...

background: depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders which has the fourth rank among the most acute problems of public health. this study aims to compare the efficacy of two treatment methods of group pharmacotherapy and group cognitive therapy on the temperament and character dimensions of depressed patients. methods: 45 male patients with depression were assigned randomly in...

introdouction: the aim of this study was to compare information regarding pharyngeal airway sizes in adolescent subjects with different malocclusion classes obtained from lateral cephalograms and 3–dimensional (3d) cone-beam computed tomography (cbct) scans. materials and methods: in this prospective cross-sectional study, cbct scans and lateral cephalograms of 35 subjects, taken within one wee...

INTRODUCTION Solubility of mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) is an important characteristic that affects other properties such as microleakage and biocompatibility. Distilled water (DW) has previously been used for solubility tests. This experimental study compared the solubility of MTA in DW, synthetic tissue fluid (STF) and new simulated plasma (SP). METHODS AND MATERIALS In this study, 36 s...

increased level of stress has negative effects on cognitive functions. thus, it is necessary to identify appropriate strategies to prevent cognitive and motor performance decline. the aim of this research was to study the effect of immobilization stress on learning and memory and the protective role of physical activity in them. from male albino-wistar rats of pastor institute, 32 rats were ran...

this study compared the effects of neurofeedback and physical practices on performance and retention of dart throwing skill. 24 subjects were selected by convenience sampling method from female physical education students of urmia university who were all right-handed with no history of neurofeedback training and dart throwing. they were divided to three groups: physical practice, neurofeedback ...

the purpose of this research was to determine the effect of volleyball skills training and problem solving on adolescent girls self-efficacy. the research method was semi-experimental and conducted in as pre-test and post-test with four experimental groups.the research statistical population consisted of all first grade students of broujen high schools in the academic year of 2009-2010(1388-89s...

This study uses a quantitative technique, more particularly one-way ANOVA, to examine how land ownership affects households' capacity attain food security in the Barbardiya Municipality. A research technique was utilized gather numerical data from sample of 371 houses municipality that were randomly chosen. The analyzed using ANOVA look for variations average evaluations sufficiency among vario...