studies have shown that there are psychiatric patients who tend to aggressively mutilate themselves; they burn or in most cases attempt to burn themselves, attempt to severely damage their genital organs (especially amputate their penis), castrate themselves, axtract their own eyes, amputate their own hands, or commit suicide. this report introduces two psychiatric men, aged 40 and 47, who had ...

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background drug addiction, obsessive compulsive disorders (ocd), and other anxiety disorders are the disorders most commonly found in patients with bipolar disorder. objectives the purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting the risk of drug addiction, obsessive compulsive disorders, and other anxiety disorders in patients with bipolar disorder. patients and methods in this retr...

background and objective: chronic renal failure (crf) may have many effects on nervous system and manifest as headache, seizure, dialysis disequilibrium syndrome, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertensive encephalopathy, uremic neuropathy, and some neurologic complications of transplantation. in this present study we investigate neurologic disorders in children with crf. methods: in this descriptive, c...

hysteria is one of the conversion disorders that can be presented similar to neurological and organic disorders. conversion symptoms are usually associated with emotional conflicts of the patient. belching is often reported in patients with gastroesophageal reflux and is a rare manifestation of hysteria. the authors would describe a young female patient with serial belching that, after several ...

background and objectives: musculoskeletal disorders are common among children. burden imposed on neck, shoulder and back areas by carrying schoolbags may result in musculoskeletal disorders in students. the aim of this study is to determine the frequency of musculoskeletal symptoms and factors associated with these symptoms in students of tehran.   methods: three hundred and forty students par...

how to cite this article: jabbehdari s, rahimian e, jafari n, sanii s, khayatzadeh kakhki s, nejad biglari h. the clinical features and diagnosis of metachromatic leukodystrophy: a case series of iranian pediatric patients. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):57-61. abstract objective metachromatic leukodystrophy disorder (mld) is one of the rare neurometabolic diseases caused due to lack of ...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, jafari n, alai mr, jabbehdari s, ahmad abadi f, nejadbiglari h. homocystinuria: diagnosis and neuroimaging findings - of iranian pediatric patients. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1):94-98. abstract objective homocystinuria is a neurometabolic diseases characterized by symptoms include neurodevelopmental delay, lens dislocation, long limbs and thrombo...

how to cite this article: mansouri nejad se, yazdan panah mj, tayyebi meibodi n, ashrafzadeh f, akhondian j, beiraghi toosi m, eslamieh h. griscelli syndrome: a case report. iran j child neurol. 2014 autumn;8(4): 72-75. objective griscelli syndrome (gs) is a rare autosomal recessive immune deficiency disorder that presents with pigmentary dilution of the skin and hair, recurrent skin and pulmon...

depression is a common symptom and a major public health problem in the elderly. despite its prevalence and seriousness, depressive disorder in older people remains under-treated. the optimal treatment of depression in later life is crucial, and requires appreciation of several age-related factors such as comorbidity, polypharmacy, altered drug kinetics, variable treatment response and increase...