OBJECTIVE To establish reliable procedures and normative values to quantify brainstem encoding of speech sounds. METHODS Auditory brainstem responses to speech syllables presented in quiet and in background noise were obtained from 38 normal children. Brainstem responses consist of transient and sustained, periodic components-much like the speech signal itself. Transient peak responses were a...

how to cite this article: pishyareh e, tehrani-doost m, mahmoodi-gharaie j, khorrami a, rahmdar sr. a comparative study of sustained attentional bias on emotional processing in adhd children to pictures with eye-tracking. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1):64-70. abstract objective adhd children have anomalous and negative behavior especially in emotionally related fields when compared to ot...

Pain affects the lives of many individuals by creating physical, psychological, and economic burdens. A critical psychological factor negatively affected pain is one's ability to sustain attention. In order better understand effect on sustained attention we conducted three experiments utilizing psychomotor vigilance task, thought probes, pupillometry. Experiment 1, participants in acute exhibit...

Objectives: Researchers have focused their attention on balance in the elderly because there is a significant correlation between balance and fall. Therefore, it is very important to identify the factors that can affect elderly balance. The aim of this study was to investigate relation between sustained attention and balance in elderly. Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in 20...