dr ali mohammadzadeh

Amphetamines are synthetic stimulants and are taken either legally for medicinal reasons or illegally for recreational use. Amphetamine-type substances are the second most commonly used drugs in the world. Amphetamines being thought to be useful but become diabolic in their reputation as time passes. In this article, physiological and psychological dimension of amphetamine abuse was investigated. As physiological Effects on sleep, Anorectic Effects, Risks associated with route of administration, Oral damage, Cardiac effects and stroke, Link with blood viruses, Prenatal effects, Neurotoxic Effects, Parkinson’s Disease are seriously consequences of amphetamine use. Psychologicaly damages perspective, prolonged use of amphetamine Associated with psychotic and mood disorders, impaired cognitive performance and dependency.

Given that Tabriz Shohada hospital is the place of accepting emergency patients includes accident victims, Nurses at this hospital are exposed to double stress. This study explored prediction of nursing stress according to personality traits and job engagement in Tabriz Shohada hospital nurses.
The current study was conducted in correlational context. Randomly selected 105 nurses from Tabriz Shohada hospital sections such as sixth general sections, Rehabilitation, ICU & Emergency Department took part in this research. Participants answered to Nursing Stress Scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (EPQ-R) and Job Engagement Scale. Data were analyzed using stepwise multiple regression analysis.
The results indicate that nursing stress is more strongly associated with the neuroticism and there are no relationships among nursing stress and extraversion or psychoticism. Also, nursing stress showed a positive relationship with job engagement. Using the multivariate regression analysis, results indicated that the neuroticism trait & job engagement were suitable predictors towards Nursing stress, of the three personality factors and job engagement.
Nursing stress influenced by internal factors than demographic variables, and two important predictive variables (neuroticism trait & job engagement) have more important role in predicting of nursing stress.

Dimensional approach assumes the psychosis symptoms to be exaggerated manifestation of personality traits that have a continuous distribution in a population. It represents schizotypy as continuously distributed traits. The aim of the present study was to assess the psychotic like symptoms schizotypal personality disorder focusing on age and gender differences. This descriptive-cross sectional study was conducted on 749 normal students of Shiraz University. The participants answered to schizotypal personality scale (STA). Distribution rates of the schizotypal personality features and its components were reported with regard on age and gender differences. Females were characterized by higher scores on whole STA and paranoid suspiciousness/social anxiety and magical thinking factors. The results of this study also showed the effect of age is neglectable in university age samples. The findings of this research provide more research-based confirmations for dimensional model of psychosis.