the wisconsin test card sorting test (wcst) is a neuropsychological test that has been suggested as a more specific test for frontal lobes dysfunctions. this study was designed to determine whether wcst is able to differentiate between iranian psychiatric patients with cognitive disorders and normal subjects, and whether wcst scores are related to severity of symptoms in depressive and schizoph...

head trauma associated with multiple destructive cognitive symptoms. cognitive destruction leads to impairment in cognitive tasks and cognitive failure. cognitive failures include problems with memory, attention, and operation. this study aimed to comparing cognitive failures in mild traumatic brain injury (tbi) patients and normal people in kashan. the study was performed on 40 tbi patients re...

Objective: The current study seeks to investigate the mechanisms through which mindfulness is related to social anxiety symptoms in a clinical sample of adults by examining whether experiential avoidance and specific cognitive emotion regulation strategies (rumination, catastrophizing, and reappraisal) mediate associations between mindfulness and social anxiety symptoms. Methods: Statistical p...

or Catholic health care leaders, balancing mission with regulatory and fiscal realities means facing up to a future that demands delivering higher quality health care to more people at lower cost. In the struggle to provide quality, compassionate care in a climate that offers fewer resources and, at the same time, adapt to new business models, leaders can underestimate the strain on their front...

this study is aimed to compare two treatment modalities in term of decreasing depression symptoms in divorced women in city of tehran. it is an experimental study .the beck depression test was done in divorced women with depression symptoms, then they were randomly assigned to 2 groups, one group received only pharmacologic agents and the other group received both medication and cognitive thera...