The purpose of the study was to investigate dysfunctions in families with a member suffering from endogenous monopolar depression during the acute phase by means of a case-control study, and to consider the possibilities of psychiatric intervention for families with a patient in the course of monopolar depression. Twenty patients with monopolar depression during the acute phase and family membe...

Protein contacts contain important information for protein structure and functional study, but contact prediction is very challenging especially for protein families without many sequence homologs. Recently evolutionary coupling (EC) analysis, which predicts contacts by analyzing residue co-evolution in a single target family, has made good progress due to better statistical and optimization te...

background: adult age is a sensitive period of human life and paying attention to the issues and needs of this stage is a social necessity. regarding the specific needs of this period, considering the empowerment, dignity and self-efficacy in the elders is very important too which is frequently neglected. this study aimed to determine the effect of family-based interventions on the elders’ empo...

Hereditary sensory neuropathy (HSN) is a rare disorder of peripheral sensory neurons. It was also known as hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy. It is characterised by a chronic clinical evolution with ulcerations, loss of sensation and destruction of terminal digits of feet and hands. It usually begins in childhood. Symptoms start with inflamed fingers or toes especially around the nail...