This study compared relatives' attributions and affective reactions toward patients with severe mental illness (SMI) only (N = 32) and patients with dual SMI and a substance use disorder (N = 36). Family members of patients with dual disorders perceived their ill relatives to have greater control over the causes of their psychiatric symptoms and to be more responsible for their symptoms than di...

Introduction: To study sentence comprehension in Persian-speaking Patients with Aphasia considering the factors of complexity. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the performance of 6 non-fluent aphasic patients were tested and their performance was compared to 15 matched control group. Comprehension of semantically reversible sentences was assessed using a binary sentence-picture matching...

BACKGROUND The well-being of relatives of patients having chronic heart diseases (CHD) has been found to be negatively affected by the patient's condition. Studies examining relatives of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) indicate that their well-being may be affected in a similar manner, but further research is needed. AIM To explore and describe critical incidents in which relatives of ...

Relatives of 12 probands who had severe dementia associated with Parkinson's disease were studied. A high risk for Parkinson's disease was found among relatives but only one instance of dementia. The high risk to relatives and the dementia of the probands appeared to be related to the overall severity of the Parkinsonian illness.

background: there are no data on familial aggregation of colorectal cancer (crc) in northeastern iran. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of early-onset crc and patients suspected for hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (hnpcc) based on the clinical criteria in this area. materials and methods: documents were collected from two hospitals in mashhad regarding 326 inpati...

Thirty-seven parents of probands with low platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity levels and 38 parents of high MAO probands were examined for MAO activity, past and present psychopathology, and reported psychopathology in other relatives. Results showed generally positive and significant correlations between parents' and children's MAO levels, significantly greater rates of "high MAO related...