conclusions the incidence of pocd was not significantly influenced by a bolus dose of ketamine (0.5 mg/kg) after orthopedic surgery in elderly patients. there were no negative effects of ketamine on early pocd. results the two groups had similar demographic characteristics except for the gender. surgical and anesthetic data were not significantly different. a statistically significant differenc...

cognitive rehabilitation is a group of designed techniques that is for the promotion of cognitive domains in people with disease or disability. cognitive rehabilitation therapy (crt) is the science of restoring cognitive processing and learning compensatory strategies and it affects the molecular and cellular recovery rehabilitation by integration of behavioral and cognitive changes. the promot...

cognitive rehabilitation therapy is an effective therapeutic program to restore functioning and compensate cognitive deficits of numbers of involved traumatic brain injury individuals as well as many psychiatric patients, of them ptsd in particular. specific skills and metacognitive strategies help patients to create self-awareness and learn how to monitor these skills. metacognitive training i...

melatonin has both pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory properties depending on the stage of inflammation. despite its therapeutic effect in alleviation of some symptoms of multiple sclerosis; the precise role of melatonin in ms pathogenesis remains a topic of debate. the aim of this study was to measure the urine level of one of melatonin products which is an index of serum melatonin level, ...

introduction: the present post-eventual research study was conducted with the purpose of comparing the memory performance between two distinct groups of 50 healthy children and 50 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) children (25 girls and 25 boys) in tehran with an age range of 10-12. methods: the whole students were selected through simple random sampling method and were assessed i...

background and purpose: cognitive impairment (ci) is one of the causes of disabilities in multiple sclerosis patients (ms). therefore, early detection and evaluation of cognitive performance is very important in patients with ms. the aim of the present study is to compare montreal cognitive assessment (moca) test and mini mental status exam (mmse) in relapsing remitting (rr) ms patients. method...

in order to examine the hypothesis of this research, an accidental sample of 122 students have been appointed from among the community of female students who were studying at the last year of primary school in isfahan . the sample was divided into four groups, cognitive group, behavioral group, cognitive- behavioral group and control group. the impacts of independent variables have been assesse...

objective: diabetes mellitus (dm) is a common metabolic. one of the unknown complications of dm is cognitive disorders. different types of cognitive impairment caused by dm may affect the quality of life, self-management of diabetes, and glycosylated hemoglobin. this study aimed to determine the prevalence of cognitive impairment and its relationship with glycosylated hemoglobin (hba1c), diabet...