aims: the internal unit and icu of hospitals are a suitable environment for growing of bacteria such as staphylococcus epidermidis and pseudomonas, acinetobacter. the aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of different disinfectants on bacteria isolated from the surface of hospitals in isfahan. instrument & methods: in this study, 200 samples were randomly selected from different parts of ...

conclusions it may be concluded based on the results of this study that unified transdiagnostic treatment is effective on recovery of social anxiety and negative and positive affects among the students. therefore, clinical therapists are advised to use this intervention. results results showed a significant difference between experimental and control groups in terms of social anxiety and negati...

Although negative symptoms were traditionally considered to be unresponsive to neuroleptic medication, recent studies have demonstrated that negative symptoms do improve during neuroleptic treatment and that such improvement tends to occur concurrently with improvement in positive symptoms. Clozapine is an atypical neuroleptic that is effective in a significant proportion of otherwise neurolept...

The study of dermal ridges in schizophrenia has been extensive, but only recently has fluctuating asymmetry been described. This study relates dermatoglyphic patterns with the specific positive and negative symptoms of the disease in 72 DSM-III-R defined schizophrenia and 72 normal unrelated ethnically matched controls. Schizophrenic subjects had significant lower ridge counts in both hands. Fl...

selective estrogen receptor modulators (serms) such as raloxifene have already shown beneficial effects on negative, positive and general psychopathology symptoms in postmenopausal women with schizophrenia. the purpose of the present investigation was to assess the efficacy of raloxifene as an adjuvant agent in the treatment of men with chronic schizophrenia in an 8-week double-blind and placeb...