aim : the aim of this study was to describe the frequency of non- specific symptoms of gastro esophageal reflux and association of these symptoms with gastro esophageal reflux disease (gerd) in iranian population. background : gerd is a common gastrointestinal disorder, worldwide. some patients with gerd have no symptoms while others may have non-specific symptoms. patients and methods : this s...

patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, conducted in isfahan and kermanshah medical universities in iran, a total of 425 male medical students were randomly selected with the proportional to size from different faculties to participate voluntarily in the study. a self-report written questionnaire was applied to collect data. then, the obtained data were analyzed by spss version 20 u...

Sensation seeking is a personality trait that has been associated with disinhibited behaviours including substance use and gambling, but also with high-risk sport practices including skydiving, paragliding, and downhill skiing. Twin studies have shown that sensation seeking is moderately heritable, and candidate genes encoding components involved in dopaminergic transmission have been investiga...

objective: personality traits affect human relationships, social interactions, treatment procedures, and essentially all human activities. the purpose of this study is to investigate the personality traits -including sensation seeking, flexibility, and happiness - among a variety of infertile women who were apt to choose assisted reproductive technology (art) or surrogacy. materials and methods...

Research demonstrating links between sensation-seeking and drug use, and sensation-seeking and participation in leisure activities suggests designing substance misuse prevention projects that encourage substituting alternative activities for drug use. The current study uses factor analysis and discriminant analysis to provide comprehensive information on the kinds of activities high-sensation s...

Sensory information undergoes extensive associative elaboration and attentional modulation as it becomes incorporated into the texture of cognition. This process occurs along a core synaptic hierarchy which includes the primary sensory, upstream unimodal, downstream unimodal, heteromodal, paralimbic and limbic zones of the cerebral cortex. Connections from one zone to another are reciprocal and...

We humans use the five senses of “sight, sound, touch, taste and smell,” to interact with other people and various objects around us. While remote communication with video and speech have become familiar to us lately, DoCoMo is currently working on research aiming at finding ways to communicate via tactile sensation, which is believed to be important in terms of information volume, which comes ...