background: there is a significant proportion of workers with mental disorders who either are struggling at work or who are trying to return to work from a disability leave. objective: using a population-based survey of working adults in ontario, canada, this paper examines the perceptions of workers towards mental disorders in the workplace. methods: data are from a sample of 2219 working adul...

background: the prevalence of migraine headaches significantly increased in girls after menarche. this indicated that there is a closely relation between hormonal changes especially the estrogen level with migraine headaches. objectives: the aim of this work was to determine the frequency of migraine and its associated factors in medical students affected with premenstrual syndrome (pms). mater...

neurogenesis occurs throughout life in several regions of the brain. in this lecture, a new sight for the role of the dentate gyrus and adult hippocampal neurogenesis in anxiety disorders will be discussed. the region that has obtained the most attention for its involvement in the neurogenesis of affective and anxiety disorders are the hippocampal and dentate gyrus. evidence strongly suggests t...

anxiety disorders are the most common reasons for referring to specialized clinics. if the response to stress changed, anxiety can be greatly controlled. the most obvious effect of stress occurs on circulatory system especially through sweating. the electrical conductivity of skin or in other words galvanic skin response (gsr) which is dependent on stress level is used; beside this parameter pe...

worldwide, more than 185,000 children under 18 years die from road traffic accidents annually (each four minutes a child death occurred due to road crashes); with most casualties from developing countries. 95% of road traffic fatalities among children occur in developing countries. many more children are injured, often severely, and suffering from different disabilities. road accidents cause ex...

background and objectives: in many studies, chronic diseases are associated with incidence of driving accident. the main objective of the present study is investigation the effect of physical and mental disorders status of bus drivers on the occurrence of crashes. materials and methods: this research is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study that was performed on 665 bus drivers' pu...