Avicenna Journal of Neuro Psycho Physiology
Volume:4 Issue: 1, Feb 2017

Human social conduct draws upon focal as well as global connected brain mechanisms. These flexible anatomical routes operate in cooperation and coordination for intelligent behaviors. Cues and inputs from human social interaction are processed with reference to innate and acquired mental framework, and inference is drawn toward generation of appropriate output (response).The focal and global connections are being characterized with functional neuroimaging technology. Brain mapping approaches have facilitated comprehensive understanding of network neurophysiology. There is increased knowledge of pollution threats to delicate neural architecture operating the social conduct, which is a challenge to the quality of personal and social life. The most vulnerable periods are early developmental stages and later during aging. Such kind of distortion is speculated as a possible basis for the hatred held by Hitler. This article briefly introduces related neurophysiologic and neurotoxicological perspectives; moreover, the interdisciplinary research perspectives relevant to development of preventive and corrective interventions are deliberated upon.

Studies have shown the high prevalence rate of behavioral disorders in primary school students, which can underlie many complications and problems for the students as well as their families.
The aim of this study was determined by prevalence and socio-demographic factors related with behavioral disorders among primary school students.
This is a cross-sectional study, which has been done among 350 primary school students in the city of Abadan, in the southwest of Iran. Samples have been selected based on simple random sampling among the teachers, and the Rutter behavioural disorder questionnaire (teacher form) was used for the data collection self-questionnaire. Data were analysed by SPSS version 21 using appropriate statistical tests including logistic regression at a 95% significant level.
Our findings indicated 15.8% of participants have behavioral disorders. Males, parents’ divorce, lower number of family members, as well as mothers’ educational level lower were the best predictive factors of behavioral disorders among participants.
Based on our finding, the prevalence of behavioral disorders was 15.8 %, it seems that designing and implementation of a behavioral disorders prevention program among primary school student is necessary.

Due to the lack of enough researches on the impaired underlying mechanisms in the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and also existence of new psychological therapies such as metacognitive therapy and neurofeedback, the application of mentioned mechanisms in the new therapies can be introduced as a possible effective option with more long term effects to treat OCD.
The current study aimed to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy, neurofeedback and treatment with fluvoxamine on the cognitive attentional syndrome and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the patients with OCD.
In a quasi-experimental study, on the clients referring to two psychiatry and psychology centers in Kerman city, Iran, 40 patients with OCD were selected using purposive sampling and randomly divided into three experimental groups and one control group. Each of the experimental groups was under treatment for 10 weeks, while the control group was just followed-up during the mentioned period. The subjects were assessed before and after treatment using Yale-Brown obsessive-compulsive scale, cognitive attentional syndrome scale and cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire.
The results of covariance analysis and paired comparisons of the groups indicated that metacognitive therapy and neurofeedback had equal effects on the reduction of cognitive attentional syndrome scores, and little effect of treatment with fluvoxamine on this variable. In addition, the results indicated the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy and neurofeedback on cognitive emotion regulation strategies and the effectiveness of fluvoxamine on the maladaptive strategies. It should be noted that metacognitive therapy was more effective than neurofeedback to improve cognitive emotion regulation strategies of patients with OCD.
The current research showed that metacognitive therapy and neurofeedback can be used as effective treatments on underlying mechanisms of the obsessive-compulsive disorders such as cognitive attentional syndrome and cognitive emotion regulation strategies.

Emotional intelligence has a key role in the problems solving and decreasing of conflicts between thought and emotion. On the other hand, self-esteem and increasing of that from infancy to death has been considered as the most important psychosocial issue.
This study aimed to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-esteem in bachelor students of nursing and midwifery schools in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences.
This cross-sectional study was conducted in Hamadan University of medical sciences in Hamadan city in Iran at 2016. A three-part questionnaire was used for data collection, which is included demographic characteristics, Sharing emotional intelligence questionnaire and Cooper Smith self-esteem questionnaire. The Obtained data were analyzed using SPSS software (version 23) with descriptive statistics and Spearman correlation coefficient.
The most of studied subjects were female (68.9%) and single (86.8%) with mean age of 23 years and the standard deviation of 4.92. The results showed that the mean scores of emotional intelligence and self-esteem in studied students were 107.97 ± 11.34 and 34.11 ± 6.56, respectively, which was higher than the average level. Moreover, there was a direct and significant relationship between emotional intelligence and self-esteem as well as all of its sub-scales (P Since the people with high emotional intelligence can establish a reasonable balance between emotions and reason that are with strong self-esteem. However, it is recommended that several workshops should be held in order to promote emotional intelligence of students at the University.

The concept of “savoring” is the ability to regulate positive emotions through perceiving pleasurable life events. The savoring beliefs inventory (SBI) is a self-report instrument for “savoring” assessment. This study is aimed to investigate the psychometric characteristics of the Persian version of SBI in a non-clinical sample.
Factor analysis, structural, translation, divergent and convergent validities, as well as retest reliability of SBI were investigated in 365 students of Shahed University. The tools used in the present study included satisfaction with life scale (SWLS), neuroticism and extraversion subscales of NEO five-factor inventory, life orientation (LOT), Rosenberg self-esteem, Beck hopelessness scale (BHS), and prosocial tendencies measure revised (PTM-R).
The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that 5 factors (reminiscing, not reminiscing, anticipating, not anticipating, and savoring the moment) of the Persian version of the SBI are more valid and reliable. Divergent and convergent validity of the questionnaire were evaluated by satisfaction with life scale (SWLS), neuroticism and extraversion, life orientation (LOT), Rosenberg self-esteem, and Beck hopelessness scale (BHS) were suitable. Prosaical tendencies measure was only correlated with one of the factors of savoring belief inventory. The results of confirmatory factor analysis supported the goodness of fit of the five-factor structure of the questionnaire.
The results indicated that the Persian version of the savoring belief inventory has good psychometric characteristics in the general population. Thus this instrument can be used in research and clinical fields with confidence.