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Background: Over the past several decades, the relationship between personality traits, depression, anxiety and stroke has interested to clinicians and researchers. Objective: Evaluation of personality traits, depression and anxiety among patients with stroke. Methods: Thirty patients with stroke recruited from neurology department inpatients unit in Assiut university hospital. Another 50 subjects matched with respect to age, sex, and socioeconomic status formed the control group. For each participant, a complete medical history was obtained. Clinical examination, brain CT or MRI, and psychometric evaluation was performed for patients. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Hamilton anxiety and Beck Depression Inventory were used in assessment the psychometric state of patients. Results: Patients with stroke reported significant higher scores in depression and anxiety. Psychoticism, lying and crime personality traits were significant higher among stroke patients compared with controls. Depression, anxiety were significant correlated with some of the personality traits subscales. Conclusion: In our study stroke is associated with depression, anxiety and some abnormal personality traits.
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Aim: The present study presented as a comparison of the cognitive functions, psychomotor performance and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders between dyslexic and control students. Method: This was a randomized study. The participants were 33 dyslexic students and 34 age, gender, and IQ-matched control students. The major evaluation tools included were Stanford Binet fourth edition for cognitive function, Quick neurological screening scale for learning disabilities, Behavioral Characteristics Rating Scales for Learning Disabilities, three Arabic standardized scales for reading and comprehension and two scales for attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD). Results: Comparisons of the 2 groups of students revealed that significantly impairment of some cognitive functions as verbal reasoning, abstract visual reasoning, short term memory and intelligent quotient. Also, impairment of psychomotor performance and higher scores of ADHD were detected among dyslexic group than control group. Conclusion: Association between dyslexia and ADHD are accompanied with more deterioration in some cognitive functions and psychomotor performance. THIS WORK ADDED • Impairment of cognitive functions and psychomotor performance among dyslexic group. • Higher scores of ADHD among dyslexic group than control group. • Dyslexia leaded to more deterioration in cognitive functions, psychomotor performance and ADHD.