OBJECTIVES To assess whether a psychosocial intervention teaching coping strategies to women can improve quality of life (QOL) in groups of Iranian women exposed to social pressures. DESIGN Quasi-experimental non-randomised group design involving two categories of Iranian women, each category represented by non-equivalent intervention and comparison groups. SETTING A large urban area in Ira...

Iranian Mental Health Survey (IranMHS) was conducted to assess the twelve-month prevalence and severity of psychiatric disorders in the Iranian adult population and to determine the pattern of health care utilization and cost of services. IranMHS is a cross-sectional national household survey with face-to-face interviews as the main data collection method. The study was carried out between Janu...

objective(s) primary or adult type hypolactasia, the most common enzyme deficiency in the world, is due to reduced lactase activity in the intestinal cell after weaning. lactase non-persistence is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. a dna variant, single nucleotide polymorphism c/t−13910 which is located on 13910 base pairs (bp) upstream of the lactase gene (lct) at chromosome 2 has been...

objective: to determine the frequency of dyt1 mutation in iranian patients affected with primary dystonia. materials and methods: in this study, we investigated 60 patients with primary dystonia who referred to the tehran medical genetics laboratory (tmgl) to determine the deletional mutation of 904-906 del gag in the dyt1 gene. dna extracted from patients’ peripheral blood was subjected to pcr...

The Human Genome Project (HGP) refers to the international scientific research program, formally begun in October 1990 and completed in 2003, mainly designated to discover all the human genes, analyzing the structure of human DNA and determining the location of all human genes and also making them accessible for further biological and medical investigations. With the appropriate rationale appro...

From Subject to Non-Subject: Semiotic Analysis of the Process Collapse in Contemporary Iranian Realist Paintings Last Two Decades