background and aim: patients’ hospitalization is associated with family members’ anxiety. fulfilling family members’ needs such as providing them with information and helping them have physical contacts with their patients can alleviate their anxiety. this study was conducted to investigate the impacts of family members’ supportive presence in a neurological intensive care unit on their anxiety...

Background One of themost common metabolic diseases is diabetes mellitus (DM), which its prevalence is growing trend. Early diagnose peripheral neuropathy (DPN) in early stages of patients with DM contributes to metabolic control and prevents severe complications.  We aimed to determine the prevalence of peripheral neuropathy (PN) and its related factor in Diabetic children. Materials and Meth...

The nervous system is an extremely complex communication system that can send and receive large amounts of information simultaneously. The nervous system has two distinct parts: the central nervous system (the brain and the spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (the nerves located outside the brain and spinal cord). The main unit of the nervous system is neural cells (neurons). The rou...

how to cite this article: fadakar k, dadkhahfar s, esmaeili a, keyhanidoust z. a case of schizencephaly and septo-optic dysplasia presenting with anterior encephalocele. iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6(4):47-50.   abstract schizencephaly is a rare central nervous system disorder with variable presentations. here we report a patient with a huge bilateral schizencephaly and septo-optic dysplas...

gene therapy consists of the introduction of genetic material into cells for a therapeutic purpose. the understanding of the basics of the molecular and cellular mechanisms in disease treatments has resulted in the development of high-tech gene transfer materials with improved therapeutic efficacy. based on the results of more than 2000 clinical trials to date, gene therapy is going to be inclu...

G00–G09, Inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system G10–G14, Systemic atrophies primarily affecting the central nervous system G20–G26, Extrapyramidal and movement disorders G30–G32, Other degenerative diseases of the nervous system G35–G37, Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system G40–G47, Episodic and paroxysmal disorders G50–G59, Nerve, nerve root, and plexus disorders G...

Prion diseases are inevitably fatal neurodegenerative conditions which affect humans and a wide variety of animals. Unlike other protein aggregation diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and polyglutamine repeat diseases, prion diseases are unique in that they are transmissible. Therefore, prion diseases are also called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. A number of prion diseases ...