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.

The metabolic syndrome and cognitive dysfunctions are common in patients with schizophrenia, yet there is no general consensus concerning the effects of the components of the metabolic syndrome on various cognitive domains. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between components of the metabolic syndrome and cognition in patients with schizophrenia. Components of the metabolic syndrome and neurocognitive functioning were assessed in 68 patients with schizophrenia. The Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) was used to assess neurocognition. Hyperglycemia and hypertension were the only components of the metabolic syndrome found to be associated with cognitive functioning. Patients with schizophrenia who were hypertensive showed cognitive impairments in 2 domains, with a negative association found between hypertension and verbal memory (P = 0.047) and verbal fluency (P = 0.007). Hyperglycemia was associated with higher scores on verbal memory (P = 0.01) and verbal fluency (P<0.001). It appears that medical treatment of certain components of the metabolic syndrome could affect cognitive performance in patients with schizophrenia.

This study serves one goal which was to investigate the personal pronouns I, we and you employed in the United States 115th Congress contrasted for the male and female politicians serving that administration which lasted from January 2017 till January 2019. The corpus included speech transcripts that were taken from an authorized repository. The analysis included 351 female Politicians’ speeches and 1113 speeches by their male counterparts. LIWC corpus toolkit calculated the rate of use of these three categories of the language used by politicians extending as of the phrase total and linguistic groupings to diverse themes, punctuation, and vocal sets. SPSS Software was used to absorb the uploaded computational results. The Kruskal-Wallis, independent sample t-test, the one-way ANOVA, Mann-Whitney U, and the two-tailed Spearman correlation tests were availed by this SPSS software to reveal the differences of linguistic choices among the groups.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0910/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

the authors suggest that a genetic disorder like polymorphism in serotonin receptors or dopamine can cause such a disorder.

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.