Abbas Rahimi Foroushani

Department of Epidemiology and Bio-statistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Publications

• Original Article   
  A Study on Relationship between Serum Cortisol and Serum Norepinephrine Levels and Sensation Seeking Trait among Iranian Male Staff
  Author(s): Hamidreza Pouragha, Seyed Jamaledin Shahtaheri*, Iraj Mohammadfam, Hassan Ashayeri, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani and Mahsa Naserpour
  
  Background: The sensation seeking trait as a personality element is the root of many risk taking behaviors. Behavioral biology theories consider this trait as acting under the command of genes and brains as the director. This research was conducted to study the relationship between sensations seeking trait with cortisol and norepinephrine transmitters. Methods: This study was conducted on 90 Iranian male Workers with an average age of 37.6±6.18 and an age range of 25 to 45 years old. In this study, blood serum cortisol and norepinephrine were measured and their association with the sensation seeking score was assessed by the fifth form of Zuckerman’s Sensation Seeking Scale. Pearson correlation test and two-way ANOVA were used to analyze the data. Results: The mean sensation seeking score was 15.49 and the.. Read More»