Background & Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of real and imaginal exposure-response prevention methods on the improvement of patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Materials & Methods: This semi-experimental study was conducted on 45 patients (from psychiatry clinics and psychology center of Fatemi Hospital of Ardabil) with obsessive-compulsive disor...

Background and purpose: EEG is used as a diagnostic tool in the diagnosis and prognosis of disease spread. Among the psychiatric illnesses that can utilize EEG to measure response to treatment, schizophrenia can be noted. Many investigations on the application of data EEG as a predictor of treatment response in patients with schizophrenia refractory to clozapine has been done in order to res...

cml in breif cml is characterized by the proliferation of large numbers of immature wbc in the blood and bone marrow. in most of the patients , it is a clonal disorder in which all cell lines, express the philadelphia chromosome)q/22 translocation(it accounts for 20 of all leukemias and most cases occur over 25 yrs of age. the disease usually begins insidiously,but symptoms referable to anemia ...

fluorescence chemical sensors for the highly sensitive and selective determination of pb2+ , hg2+, co2+ and fe3+ ions in aqueous solutions are described. the ion sensing system was prepared by incorporating lipophilic ligand (l) as a neutral ion-selective fluoroionophore in the plasticized pvc membrane containing sodium tetraphenylborate or potasium tetrakis (p-chlorophenyl) borate as a liphoph...

the present study reports an analysis of response articles in four different disciplines in the social sciences, i.e., linguistics, english for specific purposes (esp), accounting, and psychology. the study has three phases: micro analysis, macro analysis, and e-mail interview. the results of the micro analysis indicate that a three-level linguistic pattern is used by the writers in order to cr...