Self-regulatory processes are believed to be critical to early personality and behavioral adjustment. Such processes can be observed on multiple levels, including the physiological, attentional, emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal domains of functioning. Data from several longitudinal studies suggest links between early temperamental tendencies such as behavioral inhibition and frustration ...

Native speech perception is generally assumed to be highly efficient and accurate. Very little research has, however, directly examined the limitations of native perception, especially for contrasts that are only minimally differentiated acoustically and articulatorily. Here, we demonstrate that native speech perception may indeed be more difficult than is often assumed, where phonemes are high...

Background and aims: Despite substantial advances in the etiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD),the environmental risk factors have not yet been well understood. The present study investigated theassociation between ASD, and maternal and perinatal risk factors.Methods: This matched, case-control study was conducted in Hamadan, the west of Iran, fromNovember 2015 to M...

Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the hypothesis that infertility may result in a decrease in quality of life (QOL). MaterialsAndMethods In this case control study that carried out on 150 women with infertility and 150 women undergone TL as the control group. The participants were asked to fill out the Short Form Health Survey (SF-12) questionnaire, a generic instrument to measur...

Background Endometriosis is defined as overgrowth of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. Diet may play a role in the aetiology of endometriosis through effects on oxidative stress, prostaglandin metabolism, and steroid hormone levels. The objective of this paper is to assess the role of diet on risk of endometriosis among infertile Iranian women. MaterialsAndMethods In this case cont...