Publications by authors named "S Farhang"
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- A study was conducted to analyze how often dermatologic surgeons face challenges in identifying the locations of skin cancer tumors before surgery.
- Out of over 17,000 cases, only 0.60% involved uncertain sites, with these cases more common in older, male patients who had biopsies done over a month prior.
- Surgeons commonly used various methods to confirm tumor locations, achieving success in identifying 82% of these uncertain sites, while some surgeries were delayed, especially for non-facial tumors.
Psychiatric disorders cause long-lasting disabilities across different age groups. While various medications are available for mental disorders, some patients do not fully benefit from them or experience treatment resistance. The pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders involves multiple mechanisms, including an increase in the inflammatory response.
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- MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a key role in brain development and dysregulation can lead to psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia; the miR-29 family is particularly implicated in brain maturation.
- This study analyzed serum samples from 42 schizophrenia patients and 40 healthy controls, revealing that miR-29a levels were significantly lower in patients, especially in certain types of schizophrenia.
- miR-29a showed potential as a diagnostic biomarker, with 80% specificity and 71.43% sensitivity, indicating its relevance in understanding and diagnosing schizophrenia.
Aims: Most evidence on psychosocial factors in recent-onset psychosis comes from high-income countries in Europe, Australia, Canada and the USA, while these factors are likely to differ under varying sociocultural and economic circumstances. In this study, we aimed to investigate associations of self-stigma, religiosity and perceived social support with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning in an Iranian cohort of people with recent-onset psychosis (i.e.
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