objective:  to evaluate the frequency of different psychiatric disorders among 7 to 12 years old children in urban areas of tehran. method: a sample of 799 children (6 to 11 years old) were selected from 250 clusters of the entire 22 municipality areas of tehran using a multistage sampling method from 250 clusters from the entire 22 municipality areas of tehran.. after responding to a persian v...

background & aims of the study: recent studies indicated that particulate matter can have the lung irritation, chronic lung diseases, lung tissue, etc. the aim objective of this study was to assess the mortality associated with exposure to pm10 concentrations in ilam, iran, during 2013. materials & methods: pm10 data were taken from ilam's local agency of environment (i-lae). the annual mo...

conclusions this study can be used as a guide for further studies, especially longitudinal studies. it would also be worthwhile to do more studies in different age groups, because research in this area is limited. results there was a significant difference between the study groups in the mean scores on 9 psychological disorders. the mean score of the global severity index in periodontitis patie...

a psychiatric survey has been carried out in a solitary small village located in the fringes of central desert of iran. out of 106 individuals of 15 years old and over, selected randomly, 57 (53.8%) were found to be suffering from psychiatryic disturbances 21 (41.2%) of them were males and 36 (65.5%) were females. depressive illnesses were found to be the most frequntfy encontered disorder. the...

aims: drug addiction is a mental, social, and economic problem that comes from abnormal and illicit consumption of substances such as alcohol, opium, hashish, and etc., making the addict psychologically and physiologically dependent to those substances. this study was designed and performed to evaluate the pattern of drug abuse change in the addicts visiting addiction treatment centers of kasha...

in mammals, the intrauterine condition has an important role in the development of fetal physiological systems in later life. suboptimal maternal environment can alter the regulatory pathways that determine the normal development of the fetus in utero, which in post-natal life may render the individual more susceptible to cardiovascular or metabolic adult-life diseases. changes in the intrauter...

we present here a 32-year-old male with advanced lately diagnosed, right sided retroperitoneal mass, which had been already treated due to progressive muco-cutaneous lesions clinically consistent with psoriasis, during recent four years. the advanced retroperitoneal mass resected surgically and reported as hyaline-vascular castleman disease with a dense focus of coarse calcification, on histopa...

how to cite this article: fayyazi a, salari e, khajeh a, ghajarpour a. a comparison of risperidone and buspirone for treatment of behavior disorders in children with phenylketonuria. iran j child neurol. 2014 autumn; 8(4):33-38. abstract objective many patients with late-diagnosed phenylketonuria (pku) suffer from severe behavior problems. this study compares the effects of buspirone and risper...

introduction domestic and industrial swallowing of caustic substances can cause acute and chronic injuries. in the acute phase of care, focus is on the immediate control of tissue damage and perforation, and in the chronic phase, the focus is on the treatment of pharyngeal narrowing and impaired swallowing. conclusions treatment of esophageal burn lesions is by immediate and delayed removing of...

background the prevalence of helicobacter pylori has declined rapidly in asia. this has been shown in both seroprevalence-based and endoscopy-based studies. the present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of gastric infection caused by h. pylori in an iranian population residing in south of iran. patients and methods a total of 522 patients (266 females and 256 males with the mean a...