In a large posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression treatment outcome study, thorough diagnostic assessments of veterans at pretreatment, posttreatment, and 3 follow-up times were completed. The research team that reviewed these assessments encountered several challenges in the differential diagnosis of PTSD because of high comorbidity and symptoms shared with or resembling other dis...

Vestibular migraine is becoming recognised as a distinct clinical entity that accounts for a high proportion of patients with vestibular symptoms. A temporal overlap between vestibular symptoms, such as vertigo and head-movement intolerance, and migraine symptoms, such as headache, photophobia, and phonophobia, is a requisite diagnostic criterion. Physical examination and laboratory testing are...

this descriptive study was conducted to determine the prevalence of asthma and related symptoms among 6-7 and 13-14 year old school children in tehran as a part of international study of asthma and allergies in childhood (isaac) phase iii. the isaac written questionnaire was given to a total of 6127 students of 72 schools in urban area of tehran. simple random sampling was performed with a unif...

there is a long tradition in economics about the question of whether intergenerational discounting is fair or not. ramsey (1928) was the first economist that criticized the discounting and mentioned that the just rate of discounting is zero.  in this paper it was tried to calculate the just rate of discounting for iran with respect to islamic thoughts. according to islam, intergenerational just...

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia is a developmental defect of the diaphragm that allows herniation abdominal contents into thoracic cavity. It usually diagnosed in neonatal period. Late presenting cases are uncommon and difficult to diagnose, due their rarity diversity semiology, with clinical presentation overlapping other more frequent pathologies. We report case 14-month-old male, history sev...

objective: suicide is one of the most important early causes of death in psychotic patients. the main object of this research was to determine the relationship between positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and psychotic major depressive disorder (mdd) with suicidal history and risk. methods: sixty five patients with schizophrenia compared to 65 patients with psychotic mdd in a cross s...