worry is considered as one of the shared cognitive components in generalized anxiety disorder (gad) and obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd). the study of cognitive factors influencing worry simultaneously has important implications for psychopathology. these factors have been discussed separately in different theoretical models. the aim of the present study was to investigate the simple and mul...

The implicit claim is that such a machine can learn at speeds comparable to learning in humans, and will not require evolutionary time-scales, despite having no specific knowledge about the environment initially, nor even any concepts (an ontology) specific to the environment. This is closely related to the ancient "tabula rasa" theory of knowledge acquisition, summarised here: http://en.wikipe...

conclusions the results suggest that the msfc could be used as a simple tool to detect the negative effects of heat in patients with ms. results in the ms group the average msfc scores were -0.48 (sd 0.79) at baseline, -0.99 (sd 1.97) during heat exposure and -0.68 (sd 1.58) after a one-hour delay. the average msfc scores of the hc group were 0.58 (sd 0.42) at baseline, 0.66 (sd 0.43) during he...

background tramadol is an opioid analgesic indicated for the treatment of moderate and severe pains. in the case of long administration, tramadol has a potential to cause dependency, tolerance and drug abuse. objectives this study aimed to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with tramadol abuse among college students based on the theory of planned behavior (tpb) as a theoretical f...

this workshop is an evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) training for mental health professionals and counselling graduate students in group therapy for anxiety disorders. the “transdiagnostic” approach is gaining widespread acceptance because it enables therapists to treat a variety of anxiety disorders using a common group protocol. training will focus specifically on delivering ...

conclusions chronic and moderate malnutrition did not influence the cognitive function, the intelligence quotient, and the impulsivity index. background undernutrition is the most common cause of growth retardation in developing countries. we aimed to assess the effect of undernutrition on cognition, intelligence quotient, and impulsivity index of 7-11 year-old children in shiraz, southern iran...

objective: the current study was performed to evaluate the cognitive improvements of the chronic schizophrenic patients treated with risperidone in comparison with those treated with haloperidol according to wisconsin card sorting test (wcst). methods: in a double blind clinical trial, 65 patients with a diagnosis of chronic schizophrenia were randomly allocated into two groups. they received a...