the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between obsessive-compulsive symptoms (ocss) and negative and positive symptoms in schizophrenia.subjects of the study comprised of 31 schizophrenia with obsessive-compulsive symptoms (19 men and 12 women) selected by convenience sampling method from iran psychiatric hospital. the diagnoses were established on the basis of dsm-iv-t...

a study on clinical signs of tuberculosis patients in urmia a gholami , bsc l moosavi jahromi ,bsc received: 11 aug, 2009 accepted: 25 oct, 2009 abstract background & aims: tuberculosis is a major health problem worldwide, especially in developing countries. the warning signs of pulmonary tuberculosis are chronic cough with sputum that is usually accompanied by bloody sputum, and sometimes the ...

Background and Objective: Considering the hypothesis of the effects of the use of antioxidants such as ascorbic acid on the improvement of oxidative stress induced by schizophrenia, the present study was designed to investigate the effect of ascorbic acid as an adjunctive therapy with risperidone in controlling the symptoms of schizophrenia. Materials and Methods: This randomized clinical tria...

Background: Schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric disorder and its  Positive and negative symptoms have negative effects on social functions. A combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments is considered more effective for this condition. The present study aimed to determine the effect of a group horticulture program on psychiatric symptoms in patients with chronic...

objective : poor premorbid adjustment has been reported to be a predictor of more severe psychotic symptoms and poor quality of life in such psychotic disorders  as  schizophrenia.  however,  most  studies  were  performed  on chronic schizophrenic patients, and proposed the likelihood of recall biases and the effect of chronicity.  the aim of this study was to investigate these factors in a sa...

conclusions it can be concluded that brain-behavioral systems may be the foundation of behavioral and emotional tendencies in patients with migraine headaches. results the results showed that positive affect had a significant positive correlation with active avoidance parameters and negative significant correlation with passive avoidance and extinction parameters. the findings also indicated th...