Background: A persistent and chronic illness called dementia is associated with cognitive decline, changes in personality, poor thinking, problems executive function. Various studies linked vitamin B12 deficiency the elderly patients. Objective: To find out frequency of amongst patients presenting Methodology: The current study was descriptive cross-sectional carried at Medicine Department, Fau...

CONTEXT Several observational epidemiological studies report an association of pregnancy and obstetric complications with development of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) in offspring. However, the precise nature and timing of the hypothesized biological insults are not known. OBJECTIVE To test whether severe maternal nutritional deficiency early in gestation is associated with risk for ...

introduction: acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) is a fatal nervous system disorder associated with infections caused by retro family known as human immune virus (hiv). the present research was carried out with regard to the high prevalence  of mental disorders among the hiv positive patients referred to kermanshah health care center(khcc). materials & methods : the present study is a d...

Steinhausen, H-C., and Stahnke, N. (1976). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 51,778. Psychoendocrinological studies in dwarfed children and adolescents. Thirty-two dwarfed children and adolescents were studied clinically, by laboratory assessment, by a battery of psychological tests and a structured interview. Growth hormone deficiency was present in 16 cases, but in the remaining 16 cases ther...

cd8 deficiency is a rare primary immunodeficiency with low or absent peripheral cd8 cells which results from tap deficiency, zap 70 deficiency and cd8 α gene mutation. we report a 14 year old female who presented with a history of recurrent pneumonia, bronchiectasis, otitis, severe varicella, herpetic lesions of mouth, bilateral uveitis, and cataract formation since the age of 8 years. she had ...

background :co-morbid psychiatric disorders affect prognosis, psychosocial adjustment and post-surgery satisfaction in patients with gender identity disorder. in this paper, we assessed the frequency of personality disorders in iranian gid patients.   methods : seventy- three patients requesting sex reassignment surgery (srs) were recruited for this cross- sectional study. of the participants, ...

the green revolution fulfilled the food demand of crowded millions. from the time of green revolution to till date high yielding and fertilizer responsive varieties have evolved to increase the production per unit area. to improve the productivity only major nutrients are concentrated almost in all crops. though the importance of micronutrient realized during past decades in most of the crops b...

Delirium is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome that typically involves a plethora of cognitive and non-cognitive symptoms, resulting in a broad spectrum of differential diagnosis dominated by mental disorders. The prevalence of delirium in elderly patients admitting to hospital is 5-55% [1]. Delirium is a common neuropsychiatric syndrome that may occur in several different settings and one of ...