The present study examined whether risky behaviors, gaming addiction, and family sense of coherence classify female male university students correctly. For this purpose, Logistic Regression Analysis (LRA) was used. main purpose LRA is to estimate which group the individual a member of. widely used predict categorical data (i.e., female, addicted non-addicted, single married). comprised 281 (148...

This article focuses on the evolutionary reality of power-driven competitive humans. It documents how biologists describe successful males as ‘alpha males’ and later references Darwin’s extensively documented account ‘the law battle’ that drives male–male competition for females behalf reproduction. The proceeds to show across species has been exapted by humans in their harming killing other wa...

BACKGROUND Although considerable evidence implicates dopamine D1-receptor signaling in the nucleus accumbens in motivation for cocaine during early stages of addiction, less is known with regard to its role after the development of addiction. Here, we examined its role in the development of an addicted phenotype in intact male and female rats, and in female rats that were either resistant or vu...

BACKGROUND Drug abuse is one of the most important public health problems worldwide as in Iran. The aim of present study was to determine whether opium addiction can affect bone mineral density or not. METHODS Fifty opium addicted and 50 non-addicted volunteer men aged between 25-45 were enrolled. The subjects with positive history of other osteoporosis risk factors were excluded. The vertebr...

introduction: many studies have revealed that drug addicted individuals exhibit impaired performance on executive function tests but a few studies have been conducted on executive functions of drug addicts in iran. to contribute to this understanding, the present study was designed to assess some domains related to executive functions including cognitive flexibility, attention and speed of ment...

BACKGROUND Although some studies have been conducted on violence against women, but all these studies were conducted in the general population and not the wives of addicts. This study was aimed to compare the violence against women with and without an addicted spouse. METHODS This comparative study was conducted on 200 married women in Kashan, Iran. 100 cases were females with addicted spouse...

Tuberculosis(TB) is a disease of global significance, which accounts for a death in every 15 seconds. Recent studies shows TB is rising in certain parts of the world, and Saudi Arabia is one of them. Several factor contribute in predisposing the subjects for infection including but not limited to addiction to various compounds which have immune modulation properties, such as amphetamines and He...