We report an epidemic of konzo, symmetric spastic paraparesis associated with cassava consumption and cyanide exposure: 384 patients were treated in rehabilitation centres; the prevalence rate in a badly affected area was 30/1000. Most patients were children over 3 and women. Owing to war, communities turned to bitter cassava as their staple and took shortcuts in its processing. When the war en...

BACKGROUND The psychological pressure on soldiers during World War I (WWI) and other military conflicts has resulted in many reported cases of psychogenic gait as well as other movement disorders. In this paper, psychogenic movement disorders captured in the WWI film footage "War Neuroses" is reanalyzed. METHODS Two movement disorders specialists re-examined film images of 21 WWI patients wit...

during the eight years of holy defense, the war supporting and engineering of jihad along with the iranian military forces (the army and irgc) participated in various operations and played a key role in defending the country.the review of jihad extensive activities in different operations offers a part of the untold history of the war to the researchers and interested in this area.the supply an...

OBJECTIVE To review the clinical findings in the first 1000 veterans seen in the Ministry of Defence's Gulf war medical assessment programme to examine whether there was a particular illness related to service in the Gulf. DESIGN Case series of 1000 veterans who presented to the programme between 11 October 1993 and 24 February 1997. SUBJECTS Gulf war veterans. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Diagn...

Background: The psychological pressure on soldiers during World War I (WWI) and other military conflicts has resulted in many reported cases of psychogenic gait as well as other movement disorders. In this paper, psychogenic movement disorders captured in the WWI film footage ‘‘War Neuroses’’ is reanalyzed. Methods: Two movement disorders specialists re-examined film images of 21 WWI patients w...

economy as a basis of any society has an important function in breaking out, proceeding and termination of deferent wars. this principle is true about iran-iraq war. this essay in addition to explaining important indicators and factors affecting states economy in war period, tries to analyse deferent economies like us, japan, iraq and some others during world war ii. it also considers iran econ...

A retrospective non-randomized study, comparing primary repair with colostomy, was made on a series of 102 patients with penetrating intraperitoneal colon injuries, in a war surgery programme in Cambodia. The overall case fatality rate (CFR) was 25.5%, whereas in the primary repair group CFR was 20%, compared to 30.8% in the colostomy group. The difference was not statistically significant (P =...

One of the most striking and most important developments in American moral discourse on uses of military force over the past forty-odd years has been the recovery and practical use of the idea of just war to guide moral analysis and judgment. As a result, various forms of just war discourse can be found today in religious, philosophical, military, political, and legal contexts, and while there ...

iran-iraq war consists of a certain events which formed in a period of eight years and within a framework of issues, subjects and various operations of this era. in 51 issues of negin iran quarterly, a collection of various articles about the history of iran-iraq war has been released and these articles have been lead to the gradual accumulation of the contents relating to the history of holy d...

BACKGROUND An increasing proportion of immigrants to Western countries in the past decade are from war affected countries. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of war experience among adolescents and their parents and to investigate possible differences in internalizing and externalizing mental health problems between adolescents exposed and unexposed to own and parental war exp...