Background : Recent studies have shown normal thyroid function in infants whose mothers receive methimazole (MMI) during breast-feeding. This study evaluates the long-term effect of MMI on thyroid function and intellectual development of such children. Methods : 82 children aged 48-86 months were studied. 42 children had been breast-fed while their thyrotoxic lactating mothers received daily d...

Introduction: Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a type of abnormal perceptual processing of auditory information within the central auditory nervous system that could be influenced by cognitive factors, such as attention. Attention is one of most important cognitive functions in the development of learning in children, so it is important to recognize and evaluate a variety of attention defi...

AbstractObjectives:  The present study was designed to compare the worries of anxious children to that of normal children in the town of Dashtestan in Booshehr Province. Method : This was a post-hoc study conducted in two phases. In the initial phase, the validity and reliability of the research tools were assessed. In the main phase, the  tests were administered on the subjects next the collec...

 AbstractObjectives: The aim of this study is to compare behavioral disorders between fatherless and normal children. Method: In this ex post facto study, 118 students were randomly selected out of the whole student population of Fasa city (in south west of Iran). Parent’s and teacher’s versions of Rutter’s Behavioral Disorders Ques-tionnaires were assigned to the subjects who consisted of 58 n...

Objective: Given that divorce is an important phenomenon with significant impacts on families, especially on children, the present study aimed to examine rumination, healthy locus of control, and emotion regulation in children of divorce and normal children. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The statistical population included all students in the first grade of high school, in Tabriz ...

Objective: : Addiction is one of the issues that damages family relationships and this issue will cause many psychological problems for children in the future. The purpose of this study was to compare valuation, devaluation, and family relationships between children with substance-dependent and normal parents. Method: The present research was descriptive and causal-comparative. The statistical ...

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate and compare neuropsychological characteristics of students with mathematics learning disabilities and normal children in elementary schools. For this purpose, 30 fourth grade elementary students with mathemathics learning disabilities and 30 fourth grade elementary students normal (without mathematics learning disabilities) were selected. Instr...