Potential efficacy of caffeine ingestion on balance and mobility in patients with multiple sclerosis: Preliminary evidence from a single-arm pilot clinical trial

• Afsoon Dadvar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Afsoon Dadvar, Melika Jameie, Mehdi Azizmohammad Looha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Student Research Committee, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

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• Melika Jameie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Afsoon Dadvar, Melika Jameie, Mehdi Azizmohammad Looha

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Dr.amirifard@gmail.com (HA); Jameiemelika@gmail.com, Ms-jameie@farabi.tums.ac.ir, Jameiemelika@sbmu.ac.ir (MJ)

  Affiliations Iranian Center of Neurological Research, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Neuroscience Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2028-9935

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• Mehdi Azizmohammad Looha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Afsoon Dadvar, Melika Jameie, Mehdi Azizmohammad Looha

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Basic and Molecular Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Disorders Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammadamin Parsaei,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7764-0319

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• Meysam Zeynali Bujani,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Student Research Committee, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

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• Mobina Amanollahi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mahsa Babaei,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Headache Department, Iranian Center of Neurological Research, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Alireza Khosravi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Immunology Research Centre, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

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• Hamed Amirifard

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Dr.amirifard@gmail.com (HA); Jameiemelika@gmail.com, Ms-jameie@farabi.tums.ac.ir, Jameiemelika@sbmu.ac.ir (MJ)

  Affiliation Iranian Center of Neurological Research, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7675-5328

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