BACKGROUND Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common psychiatric disease with a worldwide pooled prevalence of 5.29%. OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of Risperidone with Haloperidol in the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among 3- to 6-year-old children. METHODS In a 6-week double-blind clinical trial, the efficacy of Risperidone 0.5-2 mg with...

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BACKGROUND Global cerebral ischemia (GCIR) arises in patients that are shown a variety of clinical difficulty including cardiac arrest, asphyxia, and shock. In spite of advances in understanding of the brain, ischemia and protective effects to improve ischemic injury still remain unknown. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of ellagic acid (EA) pretreatment in the rat models of g...

OBJECTIVE To assess developmental capacity of fertilised oocytes by sperm of mouse exposed to forced swimming stress. METHODS The experimental study was conducted at the Physiology Research Center of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, from August 2011 to January 2012. It comprised 20 adult male and 10 female mice. The male mice were randomly divided into two equal groups (n=10)...

objective: chronic periodontitis is the most common form of periodontal disease. changes in biomarkers seem to be associated with the disease progression. procalcitonin (pct) is one of these biomarkers that are altered during infection. this study was established to investigate the relationship between periodontitis as an infectious disease and salivary pct. materials and methods: this case-con...

background: a significant number of pregnancies, particularly in women with previous histories of infertility, are associated with fetal abnormalities. methods such as the nuchal translucency (nt) measurement enable us to identify more pregnancies with chromosomal abnormalities. materials and methods: this analytic cross-sectional study was performed in 446 pregnant women at 11-14 weeks gestati...

organizational justice is the employee perceptions on fairness and justice in work relationships and behaviors in the organization. organizational commitment is individual’s participation in organization and their sense of belonging to the organization and job. this study was conducted to identify the relationship between organizational justice and organizational commitment from the view of adm...