background hyponatremia is a common disorder in patients with brain injury. it can result in acute and chronic complications providing this electrolytic disorder is not diagnosed and treated in due time. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of hyponatremia in 95 patients with brain injury hospitalized in the intensive care unit in shahid beheshti hospital of kashan un...

introduction: music can elicit powerful emotional responses, the neural correlates of which have not been properly understood. an important aspect about the quality of any musical piece is its ability to elicit a sense of excitement in the listeners. in this study, we investigated the neural correlates of boredom evoked by music in human subjects. methods: we used eeg recording in nine subjects...

conclusions this study showed that 36% of the patients with mild tbi symptoms had mental health problems. given the high rates of psychologic disorders among patients with mild tbi, it is necessary to reduce the factors that caused the disorder. results a total of 286 patients, 79.7% males and 20.3% females with male to female ratio of 4:1, completed the study. female had significantly higher g...

introduction: the aim of this study was to get to a neurological evaluation of one of the persian music scales, homayoun, on brain activation of non-musician subjects. we selected this scale because homayoun is one of the main scales in persian classical music which is similar to minor mode in western scales. methods: this study was performed on 19 right handed subjects, aging 22-31. here some ...

this study examined the effects of a protein rich diet on coping neurotransmitter levels in orally administered ampicillin–induced neurotoxic rats compared with propionic acid (pa) models of autism. 40 young male western albino rats were divided into four groups. the first group served as control and received phosphate buffered saline orally; the second group serving as autistic model was treat...

frequency of common etiologies of adult onset epilepsy is different in various studies. the aim of this study is to evaluate the frequency of common ‎etiologies of late adult onset epilepsies. ‎ all patients referred to razi and imam khomeini hospitals ‎in the year 2003 with at least two seizure attacks beginning after age of 50 were evaluated. in the majority of cases neuroimaging, electroence...

brain death is defined as the permanent, irreversible and concurrent loss of all brain and brain stem functions. brain death diagnosis is based on clinical criteria and it is not routine to use paraclinical studies. in some countries, electroencephalogram (eeg) is performed in all patients for the determination of brain death while there is some skepticism in relying on eeg as a confirmatory te...

intractable hiccup most be considered as a symptom of underlying serious pathologies. we report a case of medulla oblongata cavernous angima presented with persistant hiccup and without any improvement during routine nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic treatment regimns. the patient is under our follow up visits and surgery is very high risk for this young girl.

cognitive rehabilitation therapy is an effective therapeutic program to restore functioning and compensate cognitive deficits of numbers of involved traumatic brain injury individuals as well as many psychiatric patients, of them ptsd in particular. specific skills and metacognitive strategies help patients to create self-awareness and learn how to monitor these skills. metacognitive training i...