recent research from a number of clinical trials has shown that transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy is efficacious, having shown comparable effects on primary anxiety disorder diagnoses as traditional diagnosis-specific cbt, and highly economical for treatment providers. however, a majority of anxiety disorder patients present with two or more “comorbid” diagnoses at once. given that t...

statement of the problem temporomandibular disorders (tmds) include a wide range of diseases such as masticatory muscles and temporomandibular joint (tmj) dysfunctions. the aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of temporomandibular disorders among patients who referred to the oral and maxillofacial surgery department of shaheed beheshti dental school, iran, 2007-2008. material and me...

background: this review was performed to evaluate the trend of alcohol use, characteristics of consumers, alcohol use disorders and toxic alcohol intoxications in bangladesh. in addition, sources and sales figures of alcoholic beverages, and number of legal permits issued for alcohol consumption are reported and analyzed. methods: a narrative search was performed on available medical literature...

the harmful use of alcohol inflicts great deal of social and economic losses on individuals and societies. given the increase in world population and the predicted increase in alcohol consumption, the alcohol related burden of disease progressively catches higher ranks in the list of factors threatening humans' life. it has been considered that the social and economic burden related to alcohol ...

alcohol provokes different molecular pathways contributing to a clinically significant neurotoxicity in different brain areas. affected cognition in alcoholics can influence both daily life functioning and alcohol craving management abilities. preventing alcohol-induced neurotoxicity with different neuroprotective pharmacological interventions is receiving strong scientific backgrounds from pub...

background: alcohol is a potent teratogen and alcohol use in pregnancy and the periconception period can cause many complications in mother, fetus and neonate.  discussion: alcohol in the mother's blood passes through the placenta to the baby through the umbilical cord. drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, and a range of lifelong disorders. alcohol-related birth ...

conclusions our findings suggest a strong relationship between eds and obesity, particularly morbid obesity. therefore, physicians must be familiar with eds as a mixed clinical entity indicating careful assessment and specific treatment planning. results sleepiness was not affected by gender in cases or controls. the sleepiness prevalence was 29 (52.7%) in the cases group and 17 (30.9%) in the ...

objective: breast cancer as a most common invasive cancer in women, provoking mental disorders for patients. to adjust with this situation, patients use kind of coping style. in present study, we aimed to determine the relationship between mental disorders and coping style in women with breast cancer.  methods: this research was a correlational study. 127 women among all women with breast cance...

results before the intervention, there were no significant differences between mothers in two groups (p > 0.05). after 8 weeks follow up, a significant improvement appeared in mothers’ sleep quality in the intervention group. aromatherapy increased sleep quality mean score (±sd) from 8.2911 (± 2.1192) to 6.7975 (± 2.3663) (p < 0.05), but in the control group sleep quality mean score (±sd) chang...

conclusions considering non-modifiable risk factors, leaders and commanders may recognize more vulnerable soldiers and try to resolve modifiable factors and decrease the risk of getting worse (with respect to substance abuse) about 7.3 times. results totally, 6.7% of soldiers improved, 82% remained without change, 6.1% deteriorated, and 5.2% severely deteriorated with regard to their substance ...