The main purpose of this research is to examine the impact of an intervention program on motivation and reading fluency of dyslexic students. The research is an experimental one. The population included fourth and fifth grade male and female dyslexic students in Ilam, Iran. 64 students were randomly selected using simple random sampling method. The students were equally divided and assigned int...

the purpose of this research was to study the effect of one session of a progressive endurance running in two environments (natural temperature and moderate temperature) on some markers of the clotting system (fibrinogen, activated thromboplastin time or aptt, prothrombin time or pt) in active girls. 27 physical education female students from mazandaran university were selected and divided rand...

Surgical procedures performed using spinal anesthetic techniques present a special challenge to anesthesiologists, because patients are awake and are exposed to multiple anxiety provoking visual and auditory stimuli. Therefore, this study was carried out to define the effect of music on the level of cortisol, blood glucose and physiological variables in patients under spinal anesthesia. In this...

The brain changes flexibly due to various experiences during the developmental stages of life. Previous voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies have shown volumetric differences between musicians and nonmusicians in several brain regions including the superior temporal gyrus, sensorimotor areas, and superior parietal cortex. However, the reported brain regions depend on the study and are not nece...

BACKGROUND Sport science studies applications of scientific principles and techniques with the aim of improving sports performance. OBJECTIVE Present research work was carried out with the aim to enhance the sport performance of children. MATERIALS AND METHODS Randomized double blind placebo controlled study was conducted in children involved in sports to assess the efficacy of trial drug "...

Music is a universal feature of human cultures, and it has both fascinated and troubled many researchers. In this paper we show through the dictator game (DG) that an individual's listening to preferred "chill-inducing" music may promote altruistic behavior that extends beyond the bounds of kin selection or reciprocal altruism. Participants were 22 undergraduate and postgraduate students who we...

although many researches have investigated the benefits of music in sport, few researches have studied the effect of music on movement recall. thus, this study aimed to identify the effect of motivational music on information recall during the performance of a wrestling skill sequence. 24 male athletes (mean age 21.6±0.9 yr, height 176.4±6.1 cm and weight 67.5±8.4) were trained in 30 skills of ...