Providing Functional Communication Test for Persian Patients and Determining Its Validity and Reliability.

The International Classification of Impairment, Disabilities and Health by the World Health Organization had a profound influence on assessing and treating people with acquired brain injuries (ABI), which cause a movement from using impairment-based intervention to use therapies that focused on improving the participation and function of the individual's daily life. Although the first step of any therapy plan is to measure the damaged function of the related dimension, no available functional communication test for Persian-speaking people with ABI is available. Our purpose of this study was to provide a Functional Communication Test for Persian-speaking patients to measure the strengths and weakness of communication in dementia-free patients with ABI.

Relationship of coping strategies with mood symptoms, disease related characteristics and demographic variables in patients with multiple sclerosis: A systematic review study.

Objective: the aim of this systematic review was to summarize the coping strategies utilized by people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) and the association of these strategies with mood symptoms, quality of life, fatigue and disability in pwMS.

Methods: search in the literature was performed across electronic databases of PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus. No time constraint was applied for searching across the databases.

The Effectiveness of Group Hope Therapy Training on the Quality of Life and Meaning of Life in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Their Family Caregivers.

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, progressive neurological disease that, due to its special nature, has various physical and mental influences on the patients and their family's lives, decreasing the quality of life and threatening the meaning of life. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the group hope therapy training on the quality and the meaning of life in patients with multiple sclerosis and their family caregivers. This quasi-experimental study was performed using pretest-posttest and control group.

The Effect of Cognitive Rehabilitation on Balance Skills of Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis.

Balance skills can be affected by slow information processing speed in people with multiple sclerosis. This study explored the effect of cognitive-based rehabilitation on balance skills of individuals with multiple sclerosis. Seventy-one participants with multiple sclerosis were randomly assigned to the usual occupational therapy exercises as a control group (n = 36, male = 10) or the cognitive rehabilitation group (n = 35, male = 10).

TRAILR1 (rs20576) and GRIA3 (rs12557782) are not associated with interferon-β response in multiple sclerosis patients.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-type inflammatory disorder in human central nervous system. Recombinant interferon beta (IFN-β) decreases the number of relapses and postpones disability progression in MS. However, up to 50% of patients treated with interferon beta continue experiencing relapses and/or worsening disability.

Correlations between developmental test of visual perception-adolescent and adult and visual evoked potential in people with multiple sclerosis.

Optic neuritis (ON) is a common visual sign in multiple sclerosis (MS). Although ON is recovered in most cases, other visual functions such as visual perception are affected and are not fully recovered. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between visual evoked potential (VEP) P100 and N70 latencies and visual perception using the Developmental Test of Visual Perception-Adolescent and Adult (DTVP-A) in people with MS.

First prototype of EMG-controlled power hand orthosis for restoring hand extension in stroke patients.

Weakness in finger extensors is a common post-stroke deficit that can disturb hand functioning. Despite introducing several powered hand orthoses in literature, most of these devices focused on providing finger flexion. There is a little consideration for providing active hand extension in stroke patients.

Fatigue, depression, and physical impairment in multiple sclerosis.

Background: Fatigue, depression, and physical impairment are common among multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between depression, physical impairment, and fatigue in an Iranian MS cohort.

Methods: Fifty consecutive relapsing-remitting MS patients and 50 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HCs) were recruited from Sina Rehabilitation Clinic, Tehran, Iran.

Brain areas impaired in oral and verbal apraxic patients.

Background: As both oral and verbal apraxia are related to vocal orofacial musculature, this study aimed at identifying brain regions impaired in cases with oral and verbal apraxia.

Methods: In this non-experimental study, 46 left brain damaged subjects (17 females) aged 23-84 years, were examined by oral and verbal apraxia tasks. Impaired and spared Broca's area, insula, and middle frontal gyrus in the left hemisphere were checked from magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scans utilizing Talairach Atlas.

The relationship between family resiliency factors and caregiver-perceived duration of untreated psychosis in persons with first-episode psychosis.

Although the family has an important role in the early detection and intervention of first-episode psychosis (FEP), there are few findings reporting associations between family strengths and early treatment-seeking experiences. This study aimed to investigate, within the framework of the resiliency model of family stress, adjustment, and adaptation, the association between family coping strategies, resource management factors and duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) in Iranian families with one adult child with FEP. Hundred and seven individuals referred to three medical centers in Tehran and diagnosed with FEP participated in this study.

Olfactory function following open rhinoplasty: A 6-month follow-up study.

Background: Patients undergoing any type of nasal surgery may experience degrees of postoperative olfactory dysfunction. We sought to investigate "when" the olfactory function recovers to its preoperative levels.

Methods: In this cohort design, 40 of 65 esthetic open rhinoplasty candidates with equal gender distribution, who met the inclusion criteria, were assessed for their olfactory function using the Smell Identification Test (SIT) with 40 familiar odors in sniffing bottles.