the current study was aimed to examine the relationship between alexithymia and anxiety among male schizophrenic inpatients. the study was of descriptive and predictive nature. the sample consisted of 50 male patients in niayesh psychiatric hospital of tehran, all of whom diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia (at least 2 years). the toronto alexithymia scale and self-scaled anxiety scale were ad...

Objective: To establish the effects of orange juice (pulp free) on residual gastric volume, when it was used during preoperative period till 3 hours before the induction of general anaesthesia. Method: In this comparative study 150 patients were divided into two groups of 75 each. In the first group patients were kept fasting after midnight, while in other group the patients were allowed 200 ml...

Starting from the assumption that meaning in electroacoustic music is an outcome of the listener’s mental processes, it is the goal of this essay to explicate the mental processes whereby feeling and emotion contribute to meaning when listening to electroacoustic music. This essay begins with a broad consideration of feeling and emotion with an eye toward artistic experience, spanning from basi...