alzheimer's disease is the most common degenerative disease of brain. nowadays, the most common treatment being used to slow down disease progression, include donepezil , rivastigmine and galantamine, which all of them act as inhibitors of acetyl cholinesterase. general purpose of our study was to show effects of treatment with donepezil and rivastigmine, as two drugs that commonly used for tre...

BACKGROUND Since psychological tests such as questionnaire or drawing tests are almost qualitative, their results carry a degree of uncertainty and sometimes subjectivity. The deficiency of all drawing tests is that the assessment is carried out after drawing the objects and lots of information such as pen angle, speed, curvature and pressure are missed through the test. In other words, the psy...

Expert clinicians were given batteries of psychodiagnostic test results (Rorschach, TAT, Draw-A-Person, Bender-Gestalt, Wechsler) to analyze. For half, a battery came along with a suggestion that the person su€ers from Borderline Personality disorder, and for half, that battery was accompanied by a suggestion that he su€ers from Paranoid Personality disorder. In Study 1, the suggestion was made...

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Twenty-five male stroke patients were assessed with the use of a battery of perceptual tests (Gross Visual Skills [Baum, 1981]. Adult Visual-Perceptual Assessment [Baylor University Medical Center, Occupational Therapy Department, 1980], Manikin and Feature Profile subtests of the Arthur Point Scale of Performance Tests [Arthur, 1943; Buros, 1974, 1978], Judgment of Line Orientation [Benton, Va...

Through the use of participant observations and the collection of standardized psychological test scores from a sample of 56 street children, their characteristics were examined. The Kohs Block Design measured their intelligence; the Human Figure Drawing and the Bender-Gestalt tests were used to measure emotional and neurological functioning. The data indicated that their mental health was adeq...