human presence and accordingly establishing suitable condition for social interactions are important factors in shaping urban spaces. caring to different aspects of improving environmental qualities especially perception aspect and ease of perception from the environment with legibility improvement is an element that was emphasized from the base of urban design. the role of time, commence of da...

purpose our study aimed to profile the effect of fasting during the ramadan month on cognitive function in a group of healthy muslim athletes. methods eighteen male athletes underwent computerized neuropsychological testing during (fasting) and after (non-fasting) ramadan. diet was standardized, and tests were performed at 0900h and 1600h to characterize potential time-of-day (tod) interactions...

background and objective: intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of streptozotocin (stz) causes cognitive impairment in rats. the beneficial effect of saffron main component, safranal was investigated on icv stz-induced learning, memory, and cognitive impairment in male rats. materials and methods: for this purpose, rats were injected with icv stz bilaterally, on days 1 and 3 (3 mg/kg). the st...

objective: the present study has been carried out to develop social cognition interventional program (scip) based on theory of mind (tom), and to investigate its effects on high-functional autistic (hfa) children's social function. methods: present study was completely experimental and its participants were randomly assigned to an experimental or a control group (among 14 hfa, 7 in experim...

objective: this study aimed to assess deficits of cognitive and emotional aspects of theory of mind in patients with bipolar disorder type 1 within a remission period. methods: in this case- control study, 30 bipolar patients and 30 normal individuals were selected through purposive sampling method for the purpose of the study. then, they were matched based on their educational background and a...