background: sulfur mustard (sm) is an alkylating agent that has been used as a chemical warfare gas during world war ii and by iraqi army in the iran-iraq conflict between 1983 and 1988. sm can cause serious organ damages especially ocular, neurologic, coetaneous, bone marrow and pulmonary complications. on the other hand dexmedetomidine is a α2 agonist with sedative and analgesic effect with a...

Materials and methods The study included two groups. The first consisted of 20 patients with Parkinson’s disease, who were outpatients in the Movement Disorder Clinic and the Memory Clinic of the Neurological Clinic of two public health general hospitals and a university hospital. The second consisted of 20 healthy controls. The two groups were matched for age and education. Patients with Parki...

Materials and methods: The plasma lipid profiles and cognitive functions of the subjects were measured and the relations among plasma lipid levels, smoking, and cognitive functions were observed. The study was performed on subjects with no history of chronic disease. Mental status was evaluated by the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) in patients over 40 years of age at the Family Medicine C...

objectives: the current study was performed to investigate the relationship between mental impairment and each component of activity of daily living (adl) in elderly residents of the kahrizak charity foundation. methods & materials: standardized iranian mini mental examination and barthel index were used to assest cognitive status and adl in 184 elderly residents of kahrizak, respectively. resu...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stenosis of the carotid artery may be a cause of reduced cognitive performance that can be ameliorated with placement of a stent. The goal of this study was to measure cognitive performance and speed of psychomotor performance prospectively before and after carotid stent placement. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients referred for stent placement for a unilateral carotid arte...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION We investigated the factors associated with the reliability of insulin self-injection in elderly diabetic patients receiving insulin therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We enrolled diabetic patients aged ≥65 years and receiving insulin therapy, and assessed their cognitive function by the mini-mental state examination and 1-min mental status examination for category fluency. We a...

Medical care for patients with dementia differs from the management of cognitively intact elders. Dementia patients cannot explain their symptoms, cannot remember instructions, often resist therapy, and these patients may have select physiological differences from non-brain damaged individuals. The type of physical problems and obstacles to medical care will depend on the type of dementia. When...

A, Delecluse C et al. Habitual level of physical activity and muscle fatigue of the elbow flexor muscles in older men. L et al. Lower extremity performance is associated with daily life physical activity in individuals with and without peripheral arterial disease. Muscle strength in the triceps surae and objectively measured customary walking activity in men and women over 65 years of age. A sh...

This study assessed performance on a screening test of competency to consent to treatment, the Hopkins Competency Assessment Test (HCAT), in a population diagnosed with chronic mental illness, and examined the relationship between HCAT performance and functional status at discharge. We hypothesized that patients with chronic mental illness who failed the HCAT would also have problems in perform...