Background and Objective: Due to the increasing prevalence of premenstrual disorder and the need to use the most effective treatment to improve the symptoms of this syndrome, this study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral hypnotherapy on pain in patients with premenstrual disorder. Materials and Methods: The research method was a semi-experimental type of pre...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of cognitive rehabilitation on the improvement of attention deficit disorder in patients with hyperactivity disorder, based on quasi-experimental and pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population consisted of all patients with a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Roozbeh Psychiat...

Background: CD4 count is the most important indicator of the degree of immune deficiency in HIV-positive patients. The goal of this research was to study the relationship between CD4 count and psychological disorders in these patients. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, subjects were studied from June 2004 for one year in Sina hospital in Kermanshah. HIV infection was confi...

Objectives The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of the special individual, group and cooperative exercises on the cognitive function of children.   Methods Forty boy students aged 9–12 years were chosen from elementary schools of Mashhad. The diagnosis of development coordination disorder,  was done using Development Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCDQ...

oThis paper aims to compare meta-cognitive beliefs in obsessive compulsive disorder patients with poor and good insight and healthy individuals. For this purpose, 19 and 4 OCD patients with respectively good and poor insight (based on their score in Brown test 11th item) and 26 healthy persons were selected by available sampling. Data analysis was done by Brown test, BDI-II questionnaire, GHQ-1...

Anxiety disorders are one of the most common classes of psychiatric disorders worldwide. There are various models for the formation and persistence of this disorder that indicate the importance of this disorder among many emotional disorders in recent decades; Cognitive function is one of the cases in which generalized anxiety disorder can greatly affect. The effectiveness of silva-style psycho...

Objectives: The current study was aimed to investigate rumination and avoidance in healthy individuals and those with depressive and social anxiety disorders. Method: Sixty patients (30 with depressive disorder, and 30 with social anxiety disorder), and 120 nonclinical participants answered research questionnaires including Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), Ge...

Background and purpose: The boundary between bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder has always been a matter of debate. Despite the importance of this issue, only a few studies have directly compared these two groups. The main purpose of this study was to compare the cognitive profile of patients with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder in terms of attentional bia...