introduction: in this paper we report on clinical linguistic applications of several versions of the bilingual aphasia test (bat) and the persian aphasia battery (pab) developed to assess patterns of recovery and language impairments in monolingual and bilingual aphasics with different clinical histories living in iran. methods: the participants are adult monolingual native speakers of persian ...

background: cognitive  impairment  is one of the  most crucial disorders  among  multiple  sclerosis (ms) patients. since  ms  is  an inflammatory disease   and   boswellia papyrifera has anti-inflammatory effects, the influence of b. papyrifera  on  cognitive  impairment   in  ms patients   has been investigated  in the present study. methods: in this clinical trial, 80 ms patients  who referr...

background: programming and planning an appropriate structure for internship and purposeful assessments of students play a considerable role in developing their practical and theoretical knowledge level. one of the suitable alternatives for the traditional method is assessing internship through objective structured clinical examination (osce). therefore the aim of the present study is to perfor...

Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the stage between the expected cognitive decline of normal aging and the more serious decline of dementia. In the present study, the effect of Boswellia serrata (BS) on improvement of memory impairment in patients with MCI was investigated. Methods: In this single-center randomized double-blind placebo-controlled ...

objectives: saffron is the stigma of crocus sativus l., which has the potentials to play a role in the treatment of many diseases. although many researches are now going on this precious spice, there are few data on saffron safety in human, especially in patients with chronic mental illnesses. this study aimed to evaluate the short-term safety and tolerability of both saffron and crocin (its ma...

objective(s): crocin is the chemical ingredient primarily responsible for the color of saffron. it has different pharmacological effects such as antioxidant, anticancer and memory improving activities. crocin tablets were evaluated for short-term safety and tolerability in healthy adult volunteers. materials and methods: the study was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design consis...

Schizophrenia is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder. Cognitive deficit the central feature of disorders. impairment related to social, functional, and clinical symptoms. The aim this study was investigate usability Montreal Assessment (MoCA) as screening instrument for cognitive in schizophrenic patients alone, correlation with Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). This included 31 diagnosed...

background and purpose: cognitive impairment (ci) is one of the causes of disabilities in multiple sclerosis patients (ms). therefore, early detection and evaluation of cognitive performance is very important in patients with ms. the aim of the present study is to compare montreal cognitive assessment (moca) test and mini mental status exam (mmse) in relapsing remitting (rr) ms patients. method...