[ investigation of the effect of stuttering on personality characteristics in adult men]

Deficit in fluency of speech is named stuttering. Stuttering could influence the personality characteristics. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of stuttering on personality characteristics in male individuals. In this study, 31 stuttered men aged upper than 18 years old were compared with another 32 unstuttered men of the same age and education in terms of their personality characteristics by applying the Neo-FFI test. Results from student t test showed that the mean score of mental racial, extraversion and agreeableness of personality was statistically different between two groups. The present findings indicate that individuals with stuttering problem have different personality compared with fluent speakers; however, this different does not mean abnormal personality

[Comparison of rhyme detection skills between 7-9 years age children with dyslexia and normal children]

The objective of this study is to compare the rhyme detection ability between 7 to 9 years age children with their natural peer group of the same age. In this study, 15 dyslexic children aged between 7 to 9 were examined with another 15 normal children of the same age and gender, to investigate their rhyme recognition ability by applying phonemics awareness test. Results showed that the output of two groups from rhyme recognition ability test was 8.73+1.53 for dyslexic group and 6.47+1.64 for normal the group with an average grade of 6.88+1.94 for both of them. -Student t test showed a remarkable decline in average grade of rhyme recognition ability test in dyslexic group in comparison with the normal group [t =3.907; p =0.001]. Findings derived from this survey represented a noticeable difference in dyslexic children's rhyme recognition ability and their peer normal group in a way that dyslexics have a weaker performance and more faults than normal individuals

[Hypersegmentation of neutrophils in young women with iron deficiency]

A hematological finding in cobalamin and folic acid deficiency is increased neutrophil lobulation [hypersegmentation]. There are contradictory reports about correlation of neutrophil hypersegmentation [NH] to iron deficiency in recent studies. This study re-examines the relationship between both iron deficiency [ID] and iron deficiency anemia [IDA] to hypersegmentation. The effect of folate deficiency was also investigated. Due to the high prevalence of iron deficiency in young Iranian women, the study groups were selected among young women. 90 subjects, 30-16 years of age, admitted to the Clinical Laboratory of Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad [29 subjects with ID, 30 with IDA and 31 controls] were studied. Ferritin, folate and cobalamin levels in serum were measured by RIA [Kavos-hyar reagent]. Iron and Total Iron Binding Capacity [TIBC] were measured using Colorimetric methods. CBC and RBC Indexes were measured by Sysmex k-21. To investigate each patient's peripheral blood hypersegmentation, 100 neutrophils were counted separately by two experts. Chi-square test revealed significant differences among NH and three groups of ID, IDA and control group [P=0.001]. NH showed significant relationships with decreased serum Ferritin and Iron [P=0.001]. Logistic regression analysis showed that the relationship between NH and ID / IDA is mostly due to the simultaneous presence of low normal levels of folate deficiency [P= 0.044]. This study showed a correlation between NH and iron pools and Low normal levels of Folate. Therefore, when observing NH in peripheral blood of patients, especially in women of childbearing ages, it should be suspicious of coexistence of iron and mild folate deficiency and that further investigation must be done. Because NH is a simple and low-cost testing, it could be a useful diagnostic test for screening of IDA/ID and folate deficiency especially for women of childbearing ages