objective: the aim of this study was to determine the symptoms associated with menopause among women referred to menopause clinic of tehran women general hospital. materials and methods: in this cross sectional study which has been done between january 2011 and january 2012, in  menopause clinic of tehran women's general hospital 134 women were studied. for each woman a questionnaire was comple...

Smartphones are becoming ubiquitous and we use them for different types of tasks. One problem of using the same device for multiple tasks is that each task requires a different security model. To address this problem, we introduce Droid Mood Swing (DMS), an operating system component that applies different security policies to detected security modes automatically. DMS uses a context manager th...

Individuals may appraise internal states positively or negatively. Positive appraisals involve desiring or pursuing the state or experience, while negative appraisals involve dreading or avoiding the experience. The extent to which individuals make extreme positive or negative appraisals of high, activated, energetic states might determine whether they experience symptoms of high or low mood. T...

OBJECTIVE To analyze gait patterns associated with sadness and depression. Embodiment theories suggest a reciprocal relationship between bodily expression and the way in which emotions are processed. METHODS In Study 1, the gait patterns of 14 inpatients suffering from major depression were compared with those of matched never-depressed participants. In Study 2, we employed musical mood induc...

It has been observed that from the month of Nov, 2020 BSE Sensex is back in its mood and going made an all time high. Now market a jubilant mood. During COVID-19 period behaved like roller costa every good bad news about Pandemic equivalently affected too, if not absolute terms at least direction. The initial days Covid-19 pandemic created huge losses to investors financial market. Almost econo...

BACKGROUND In older adults, depression has been associated with increased fall risk, but the reasons for this link are not fully clear. Given parallels between major depression and Parkinson's disease, we hypothesized that major depression and related affective disorders would be associated with impairment in the ability to regulate the stride-to-stride fluctuations in gait cycle timing. METH...

BACKGROUND This research aimed to test whether positive, negative, or conflicting appraisals about activated mood states (e.g., energetic and high states) predicted bipolar disorder. METHODS A sample of individuals from clinical and control groups (171 with bipolar disorder, 42 with unipolar depression, and 64 controls) completed a measure of appraisals of internal states. RESULTS High nega...

purpose the present study investigated the psychometric properties of a malaysian adapted brunel mood scale. methods the questionnaire was administered to 355 young sport athletes with a mean age of 14.69+1.70 years. confirmatory factor analysis (cfa) and cronbach's alpha were used to determine the factorial validity and the internal consistency of the questionnaire respectively. results cfa re...

ôbjective: the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq) has been developed as a self-reporting, brief, and easy-to-use screening instrument to improve identification of bipolar mood disorders. the goals of the present study were to examine the prevalence of this disorder and interrelationship of its symptoms by factor analysis of mdq in a group of pregnant women in ïran. methods: ône thousand and eigh...