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Influência da cardiopatia congênita no desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor de lactentes

RESUMO As cardiopatias congênitas (CC) estão entre as principais causas de morbimortalidade na primeira infância e os lactentes com essa condição podem apresentar atrasos no desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor (DNPM). O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a influência da CC no DNPM de lactentes. Trata-se...

Norm scores of cancelation and bisection tests for unilateral spatial neglect: data from a Brazilian population

Clinics; 75 (), 2020
OBJECTIVE: Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) results in a consistent and exaggerated spatial asymmetry in the processing of information about the body or space due to an acquired brain injury. There are several USN tests for clinical diagnosis, but none of them are validated in Brazil. The aim was to obta...

Narrative discourse of young and older brazilian adults associated with demographic factors

CoDAS; 32 (5), 2020
ABSTRACT Purpose: 1) Compare the discourse performance between young and older adults from the Brazilian Federal District (DF); 2) Compare the mean discourse performance of participants from the DF with the normative discourse of a population from a different region of the country; 3) Verify whether the...

Psychometric properties of Cognitive Instruments in Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer's disease: a neuropsychological study

Clinics; 75 (), 2020
OBJECTIVES: To describe elderly performance in the Bender Gestalt Test (BGT) and to discriminate its score by using types of errors as comparison among healthy controls, Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, and vascular dementia (VD) patients. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of 285 elderl...

Association between cognitive performance and self-reported glaucoma in middle-aged and older adults: a cross-sectional analysis of ELSA-Brasil

Braz. j. med. biol. res; 53 (12), 2020
Recent evidence suggests that glaucoma and Alzheimer's disease are neurodegenerative diseases sharing common pathophysiological and etiological features, although findings are inconclusive. We sought to investigate whether self-reported glaucoma patients without dementia present poorer cognitive performa...

Hippocampal formation volume, its subregions, and its specific contributions to visuospatial memory tasks

Braz. j. med. biol. res; 53 (9), 2020
Visuospatial memory (VSM) is the ability to represent and manipulate visual and spatial information. This cognitive function depends on the functioning of the hippocampal formation (HF), located in the medial portion of the temporal cortex. The present study aimed to investigate whether there is an assoc...

Fluência verbal de adultos e idosos do Distrito Federal: proposta normativa piloto

Audiol., Commun. res; 25 (), 2020
RESUMO Objetivo Comparar o desempenho de adultos jovens e idosos do Distrito Federal com os dados normativos. Métodos Sessenta participantes hígidos responderam aos testes de fluência verbal semântica, livre e ortográfica da Bateria Montreal de Avaliação da Comunicação. Resultados Participant...

Montreal Communication Evaluation Brief Battery - MEC B: reliability and validity

CoDAS; 32 (1), 2020
ABSTRACT Purpose Search for reliability and validity evidence for the Montreal Communication Evaluation Brief Battery (MEC B) for adults with right brain damage. Methods Three hundred twenty-four healthy adults and 26 adults with right brain damage, aged 19-75 years, with two or more years of education...

Perceptive-Motor Maturity and its Relations with Planning, Memory Immediate and Non-Verbal Intelligence

Abstract The acquisition of new knowledge depends on the interaction of diverse ability that can facilitate the cognitive processes that underlie learning. The aim of this paper is to verify the relationship between perceptive-motor maturity and planning, visual perception, immediate memory, and non-verb...