"Stoke Park with associated Hospitals have a long record of illustrious research into the field of Mental Handicap, associated with such famous names as Berry, Norman, Fraser Roberts, Golla and Grey Walter, and also an outstanding record for the provision of services for the mentally handicapped... I consider that the field of mental handicap is one of the most promising areas of psychiatry for...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of physical activity onmemory and dynamic balance of elder people. subjects (n=15) were selected asvolunteers. the intervention was performed in an eighteen session period, threetimes a week (each session, 45 minutes). yoga training was performed for mentalrelaxation. wexler test was performed for memory evaluation. seat up test wasused to ...

Background & Aims: Balance is one of the most essential elements of physical activities and an important factor in sport skills. Vision plays a paramount role in the processing and integrating other sensory inputs for controlling balance and selecting equilibrium strategy. The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of an eight-week core stability training program on balance in blind...

the aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the effects of twokinds of motivational and instructional self–talk on the performance of static anddynamic balance tasks in the elderly. for this purpose, 45 old subjects agedbetween 60 and 70 from qom province participated in this study. static balancetask (stand on one leg) and dynamic balance task (sebt test) were instructed withno...

objectives: falling in the elderly is common and dynamic balance has direct effect abstract  on it. therefore, we decided to study the effect of functional training on dynamic balance in healthy elderly women. methods & materials: thirty healthy elderly women were purposefully selected as subjects and then randomly divided into two equal groups (control and experimental groups). the dynamic bal...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to consider possible changes in the clinical activities of general practitioners whose patients are registered in a breast cancer screening programme. DESIGN The study was a survey based on completion of forms recording breast consultations carried out by participating general practitioners during a four week period. SETTING One of three intervention...