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Evidências de validade para uma medida de estilos de aprendizagem

Psicol. teor. prát; 19 (3), 2017
Este estudo objetivou buscar evidências de validade para uma escala de estilos de aprendizagem, bem como identificar quais são esses estilos. Participaram do estudo 709 estudantes do ensino técnico profissional. Utilizou-se uma escala de Estilos de Aprendizagem, com 80 itens destinados à descrição ...

High burden and frailty: association with poor cognitive performance in older caregivers living in rural areas

Abstract Introduction: Older caregivers living in rural areas may be exposed to three vulnerable conditions, i.e., those related to care, their own aging, and their residence context. Objective: To analyze the association of burden and frailty with cognition performance in older caregivers in rural com...

El uso de marcadores discursivos en la producción lingüística de un paciente con afasia motora aferente

En este trabajo se analiza el uso y las funciones de los marcadores discursivos en la producción de un paciente con afasia motora aferente. Se analiza un corpus proveniente de una entrevista semiestructurada realizada durante la terapia neuropsicológica. El objetivo es analizar cualitativa...

Integrity of white matter structure is related to episodic memory performance in the low-educated elderly

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 75 (11), 2017
ABSTRACT The low-educated elderly are a vulnerable population in whom studying the role of white matter integrity on memory may provide insights for understanding how memory declines with aging and disease. Methods: Thirty-one participants (22 women), 23 cognitively healthy and eight with cognitive impa...

Limb apraxia in aphasic patients

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 75 (11), 2017
ABSTRACT Limb apraxia is usually associated with left cerebral hemisphere damage, with numerous case studies involving aphasic patients. The aim of this study was to verify the occurrence of limb apraxia in aphasic patients and analyze its nature. This study involved 44 healthy volunteers and 28 aphasic ...

Evaluación de competencia de pacientes antes de la cirugía

Rev. chil. cir; 69 (5), 2017
Resumen Objetivo: Evaluar las alteraciones de la competencia en pacientes entre 18 y 65 años programados a cirugía general en el Hospital Clínico UC-Christus. Se estudiaron las alteraciones en habilidades cognitivas asociadas a la competencia de los pacientes, en distintos momentos previos a una ciru...

How often should sitting and rising from a chair be evaluated in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy?

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 75 (9), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective To determine how often sitting/rising from a chair should be assessed in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients to avoid redundant/missing data. Methods Sitting/rising from a chair was evaluated in 26 DMD children (5-12 yrs), in three-month intervals, over twelve months, with t...

Cognitive performance of premature infants: association between bronchopulmonary dysplasia and cognitive skills. Cross-sectional study

Säo Paulo med. j; 135 (4), 2017
ABSTRACT CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Children born prematurely often have worse cognitive performance than those born at term regarding skills such as memory, attention and processing speed. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia may compromise cognitive development. The aims here were: a) To describe the cognitive perf...

High frequency of silent brain infarcts associated with cognitive deficits in an economically disadvantaged population

Clinics; 72 (8), 2017
OBJECTIVE: Using magnetic resonance imaging, we aimed to assess the presence of silent brain vascular lesions in a sample of apparently healthy elderly individuals who were recruited from an economically disadvantaged urban region (São Paulo, Brazil). We also wished to investigate whether the findings w...

Cognitive dysfunction in corticobasal degeneration

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 75 (8), 2017
ABSTRACT Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) was originally described as a distinct clinicopathological entity in 1967. Since then, different phenotypic presentations have emerged as possible manifestations of CBD histopathological findings. In addition, pathophysiological findings and the molecular basis ha...