Method: All pregnant women in the third trimester of gestation that presented to 6 primary health care centers in Trabzon province and the Hospital of Obstetrics and Children were informed about the study. The 316 women who agreed to participate in the study were administered a sociodemographic questionnaire, the General Health Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and Beck Depression Inventory. A...

Previous research supported that the prevalence of addiction is related to brain laterality. Brain laterality is often determined by left/right handedness and this phenomenon is considered as an important factor in addiction prevalence. The present study attempts to examine the relationships between left/right handedness with addiction and smoking on Iranian population. In this study, 2000 male...

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Verbal information is better retained when it is self-generated rather than when it is received passively. The application of self-generation procedures has been found to improve memory in healthy elderly and in individuals with impaired cognition. Overall, the available studies support the notion that active participation in verbal encoding engages memory mechanisms that supplement those used ...

BACKGROUND The decline of motor performance of the human hand-arm system with age is well-documented. While dominant hand performance is superior to that of the non-dominant hand in young individuals, little is known of possible age-related changes in hand dominance. We investigated age-related alterations of hand dominance in 20 to 90 year old subjects. All subjects were unambiguously right-ha...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the ability and safety of driving with commonly used upper limb casts, and to determine the effect of hand dominance. Material and Methods: Two healthy drivers, one of them right-handed and the other left-handed (confirmed with the Edinburgh handedness inventory), were selected. The vehicles used in this study were the 2006 model Volkswagen...

Previous research supported that the prevalence of addiction is related to brain laterality. Brain laterality is often determined by left/right handedness and this phenomenon is considered as an important factor in addiction prevalence. The present study attempts to examine the relationships between left/right handedness with addiction and smoking on Iranian population. In this study, 2000 male...

A L T H O U G H Moule et al. (1963) have very adequately summarized data on reproductive disturbances and problems resulting from cattle and sheep grazing estrogenic pastures, relatively little research has been reported on the effects of the native estrogen, coumestrol (Bickoff et al., 1958), on the growth response and carcass quality of ruminant animals (Johnston and Anglemier, 1963; Oldfield...

Objectives-In a study of patients with focal epilepsy the hypothesis was explored that different measurements of psychopathology are related to specific distributions of cerebral perfusion. Methods-Forty patients had SPECT performed with 9hnTc-HMPAO. In addition, patients received a psychiatric evaluation with the following psychiatric questionnaires: the Beck depression inventory, the Leyton o...

OBJECTIVES In a study of patients with focal epilepsy the hypothesis was explored that different measurements of psychopathology are related to specific distributions of cerebral perfusion. METHODS Forty patients had SPECT performed with (99m)Tc-HMPAO. In addition, patients received a psychiatric evaluation with the following psychiatric questionnaires: the Beck depression inventory, the Leyt...