background: celiac disease (cd) has an autoimmune disease in response to ingestion of foods containing gluten sausing damage to the mucosal tissue of small intestine. the disease can severely affect quality of life. this study aims to assess the relationship between behavioral disorders and quality of life (qol) in patients with celiac disease. materials and methods: 87 celiac patients and 100 ...

introduction: parkinson’s disease is one of the most disabling diseases which by electrode implantation and stimulation of subthalamic nucleus (stn), much progress has been made in the treatment of drug resistant patient. this new method of neurosurgery may have some neuropsychological side effects on the patients. the main aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of this kind of treatment ...

objective : patients with chronic physical diseases sometimes show increased loss of function; such patients need more care. anxiety is a well-known symptom that is prevalent among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients that can prolong and increase the risk of hospitalization. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the severity of anxiety in the mentioned patients and to examine the...

background: psychological profile of inflammatory bowel disease patients is not well studied in iran. we investigated the psychological status of iranian patients with ulcerative colitis (uc) and its relationship with disease activity and quality of life (qol). materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on adult uc patients. the lichtiger colitis activity index, hospital anxie...

abstract: aims: depression and anxiety are the factors that increase death risk in the patients with heart disease. this study was done with the purpose of studying depression and anxiety rates in the patients with acute coronary artery disease. methods: this cross-sectional study which is descriptive was conducted on 366patients in the ccu of heart and cardiology wards of kerman university aff...

behçet’s disease is a vasculitis with multi-organ involvement. our knowledge of the psychological aspects of behçet’s disease is very limited . 40 women and 24 men who fulfilled the international study group (isg) criteria of behçet’s disease were selected from behçet’s disease clinic of nemazee hospital shiraz, south of iran. controls consisted of 65 healthy volunteers. both patients and contr...

objective: patients with bipolar mood disorder constitute a relatively large number of individuals hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals. this disorder is highly co-morbid with other psychiatric disorders and may effect their clinical course. the goal of this study was to determine the co-occurrence rate of anxiety disorders and substance abuse with bipolar mood disorders and their impact on cl...

background and objectives:traditional medicine is an important approach to achieve new therapeutic strategies in basic and clinical pharmacology. allium hirtifolium boiss. and astragalus hamosus l. have been mentioned in iranian traditional medicine references for a kind of dementia with features and symptoms similar to those of alzheimer's disease (ad). in the present study, the neuroprot...