Psychiatric disorders induced by social stress have suggested that monoamines play key roles in a whole brain network. To research an environmentally dependent neural network development of social psychology, we report our model animal study of peer-social behavior learning by screening the relevant monoamines in various brain regions in the light of social brain network. We have originally dev...

The issue of children's rights has become key to human rights-based international security strategies. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is being operationalised in complex political emergencies. Children's rights now inform humanitarian principles. Universal concern for children is viewed as transcending political and social divides and able to mobilise societies to confront ...

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Mammography utilization is low in Iran compared with other countries. Here a cross-sectional survey design was used to investigate psycho-social and individual factors associated with mammography among 400 women asymptomatic of breast cancer. The study was carried out at the four outpatient clinics of Tehran during the period from July through October, 2009. We found that mammography screening ...

Along with numerous disorders, hemophilia patients are facing a lot of psychological problems. This study aims to assess obsessive-compulsive behavior in patients with hemophilia.The data obtained may be useful to psycho-medical staff working in this field and contributes to the channeling of the particular psychotherapeutic intervention or counseling. Medical treatment is not enough to improve...

Research on personality as a useful construct to understand people’s behavior in confl ict situations was traced over more than fi fty years, and an attempt was made to add neurobiological parameters to psycho-socio-culturel approaches. As a starting point, scientists in exile have been called to mind who had been expelled from Nazi Germany for their Jewish origins. Among them were Adorno and F...

BACKGROUND language and speech-language intervention. AIM to evaluate the development process of autistic children, in a direct and indirect intervention context based on the responses of mothers to the Autism Behavior Checklist. METHOD the research sample consisted of 11 mothers of children diagnosed, according to the criteria established by the DSM IVtr (APA, 2002), with autism (six) and ...

The purpose of this paper has been to assess the psycho-social factors in the onset and course of late life depressions. The sample consisted of 100 consecutive depressed in-patients, over 65 year-olds and 100 consecutive cases under 65. Our findings indicate that the number of precipitating factors was higher in the elderly group in comparison with the control group. Patients whose depression ...