Aims The Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) is designed for assessment of cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia. Versions of the BACS in English and other languages have been shown to be as sensitive to cognitive dysfunction as a standard test battery, with the advantage of brief administration and scoring time. The present study aimed to test the concurrent validity of the Persian version of the BACS (Persian‐BACS). Methods A group of 50 patients with schizophrenia‐spectrum disorders and a group of 50 healthy controls received the Persian‐BACS in a first session, and in a second session a standard neurocognitive battery. Results Cronbach's alpha for the Persian‐BACS was 0.74. All the Persian‐BACS subscales weresignificantly correlated with the corresponding standard neurocognitive subscales and the Pearson correlation of the composite scores from the two instruments was 0.71. Moreover, a one‐factor solution was found that accounted for 67.9% of the variance. Finally, the Persian‐BACS demonstrated high ability to discriminate patients with schizophrenia from healthy controls. Conclusion Good psychometric properties of the Persian‐BACS suggest that it is a useful tool for assessing cognition in schizophrenic patients with Persian as their primary language.

<p><strong>Background: </strong>There are a few studies about the health effects of steady magnetic fields. This study was performed in order to evaluate some of the mental effects of exposure to steady magnetic fields in the copper electrolysis unit.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study was performed at the electrolysis unit of a Copper Complex in Kerman Province in 2013. The populations under study were ninety workers exposed to steady magnetic fields chosen as the exposed group and 90 workers without exposure chosen from the concentration unit and similar to the exposure group in regard to working conditions. The intensity of steady magnetic field was measured in different parts of the saloon and in the head, waist and feet position. Measuring mental signs was performed by the General Health Questionnaire GHQ-28. Data analysis was performed through SPSS19 and the Mann-Whitney U, one way ANOVA, Chi-square test and Regression analysis was used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In this study the mean intensity of the steady magnetic field in the exposed group was 2.5 mT. The mean rank of mental health in the exposed group was 102.04 and in the unexposed group was 78.96 and the difference was statistically significant (p=0.003). Also there were statistical differences between the two groups in anxiety and sleep disorder (p=0.001) and depression (p=0.007) dimensions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>It appears that exposure to static magnetic fields can cause psychological complications. Therefore, more research is recommended to improve the safety of workers exposed to these fields.<strong></strong></p>

Introduction: The extent and nature of addiction among women of our country has been less known. For this reason, their requirements and needs are not addressed in planning process for control addiction. The present study was designed to compare the resilience with spirituality among addicted and non-addicted women. Method:In order to conduct this investigation, 45 addicted women were chosen as referents to female detoxification centers in Kerman city (Shahid Beheshti and Monadian Salamat) by means of simple randomized sampling method. Each of addicted women introduced one of her relatives, who had no background in addiction and s/he was cohort similar to her in terms of age, education, economic status, and marital status. All participants completed the demographic questions and Spirituality Questionnaire (SQ, Dunning & Parsian) and ConnerDavidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISK) Inventory. Data were analyzed by means of independent T-Test, Mann-Whitney U, Chi-Square, Fisher Test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and Spearman's Correlation Coefficient. Findings:The addicted and non-addicted women showed significant difference in both variables of resilience and spirituality (P< 0.0001) while non-addicted women acquired higher spores in variables of resilience and spirituality. Likewise, direct significant relationship was found between two addicted and non-addicted groups in terms of resilience and spirituality in which as variable of spirituality is added, the variable of residence was also increased. Conclusion:The women with lower spirituality and resilience were more likely subjected to drug abuse therefore with strengthening spi-

ProblemVia a network analysis approach, following 2 weeks of the medication Ritalin, the present study investigated the quality of symptom interactions and the pattern of behavior changes to identify locations of functional weaknesses in the network interactions of symptomology.MethodsRitalin® prescribed for 112 children (aged 4–14) with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as diagnosed by five child and adolescent psychiatrists. Their parents completed Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham‐IV questionnaire (SNAP‐IV) before and after Ritalin® onset as the pre and post‐test, respectively. Then, the network analysis approach was used to discover the pattern of changes in symptom interactions.FindingsThe results indicated that in 2 weeks following its initiation, Ritalin significantly reduced restlessness and interactions between symptoms of impulsivity. “Inability to follow instructions” and “difficulty waiting their turn” symptoms were the most central symptoms of strength. Three symptoms, “Often has difficulty waiting their turn,” “runs and climbs in situations where it is inappropriate” and “does not follow through on instructions,” had the most expected influence. In the 14‐day period of investigation, Ritalin® was effective in breaking some interactions and components of ADHD, but no significant mitigation of other components of the detected symptomatology network.ConclusionFollow‐up investigations using network analysis can clarify the dynamics of the network changes after initiation of medications.

In many of psychiatric disorders, family history is considered as a risk factor and effective element in prognosis and determination of types of treatments. Although in Etiology of conversion disorder, factors such as classic conditioning, psychodynamic and biological factors were considered ,familial type of this disorder was reported and discussed less.In this study, a seven members family is introduced, in which four of them, mother and three of daughters, have completely alike type of conversion disorder. They all pseudo hallucinate giant, frightening teeth of unknown animal, and as a consequence they feel Globus Hystricus, Dyspenia, and finally Syncope. At the end, researchers discuss about the role of genetic, gender, learning, and psychodynamic factors which cause similar unique symptoms in this family with conversional family.