AbstractObjectives: The effects of typical and atypical antipsychotics on inducing obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia were compared in this study. Method: In a comparative-descriptive study 64 patients with schizophrenia (32 patients in typical antipsychotic group and 32 patients in atypical antipsychotic group) were investigated. All patients with a confirmed diagnosi...

Background and Objective: Orexin is an orexigenic peptide and is present in the form of A and B in the blood. Orexin neurons respond to a number of metabolic signals that indicate the body's energy status. This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of six weeks of aerobic training on orexin level, insulin resistance and anthropometric indices in overweight women. Materials & Methods: In...

abstract the present study was conducted to examine the effect of proficiency on students interaction while carrying out the grammar-based task(s) in collaboration. in particular, the study examines whether the level of proficiency affects the learners’ focus of attention to grammatical and lexical features. the study takes a further step and examines whether there is any difference in the use...

abstract previous researches have shown success of growth hormones usage on flower production increase, pod and prevention of abscission of them in some of the pulses. two tests were done, in order to find out the effects of growth hormones to on flower production increase, pod and chick pea yield composites in farmer conditions (2010-11) and green house conditions as factorial on the proje...

vocabulary as a major component of language learning has been the object of numerous studies each of which has its own contribution to the field. finding the best way of learning the words deeply and extensively is the common objective of most of those studies. however, one effective way for achieving this goal is somehow neglected in the field. using a variety of activities such as games can r...

Background and Purpose: Myonectin is one of the well-known myokines and similar to insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) involves in cellular signaling pathways. The aim of this study was to survey the effect of resistance training length on serum levels of myonectin and IGF-1 and their relationship in sedentary young men. Method: Fourteen volunteer non-physical education students (age 26.50±0.9...