background and objective: epilepsy is a long-lasting central nervous system disorder that is accompany with spontaneous seizures and insufficiency in learning and memory. now drug treatment is the most common therapy but some patients do not research to suitable control of their seizures with current drugs. hence, new treatment is needed to help those patients that are unaffected to existing dr...

This paper examines how price minimizing behaviors impact efforts to stop smoking. Data on 4,988 participants from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) Four-Country Survey who were smokers at baseline (wave 5) and interviewed at a 1 year follow-up were used. We examined whether price minimizing behaviors at baseline predicted: (1) cessation, (2) quit attempts, and (3) succe...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that individuals with fertility problems experience psychosocial problems. The use of various coping strategies seems to have different impacts on women with infertility stress. The aim of this study was to examine the role of coping strategies (active-avoidance, passive-avoidance, active confronting and meaning based) in predicting infertility stress among a group...

abstract background and objective: according to the importance of learning and memory in the human life and also unavoidable neural degeneration due to aging, finding new compounds (drugs) against this process is valuable. however, there are many recommendations for herbal medicine and constituents which encouraged us to examine a candidate plant zingiber officinalis for the mentioned purpose. ...

introduction: epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder in which patients experience spontaneous recurrent seizures and deficiency in learning and memory. although the most commonly recommended therapy is drug treatment, some patients do not achieve adequate control of their seizures on existing drugs. new medications with novel mechanisms of action are needed to help those patients whose sei...

introduction: alzheimer’s disease (ad) is a enfeeble neurodegenerative disorder characterized by increased β-amyloid (aβ) deposition and neuronal dysfunction leading to impaired learning and recall. among proposed risk factors, impaired cholinergic transmission is a main cause for incidence of disease. methods: in the present study, effects of the intracerebroventricularly administration of an ...

conclusions these data suggest that single bilateral microinjection of aβ (25-35) could impair memory and can be used as an ad model in wistar rats. results the results showed that aβ (25-35) significantly impaired both step-through latency and time in dark compartment in the passive avoidance task. background alzheimer's disease (ad) is the most common form of dementia that leads to neurotoxic...