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Protocolo interdisciplinar de avaliação neuropsicológica, comportamental e clínica para crianças e adolescentes com queixas de desatenção e hiperatividade

Psicol. teor. prát; 16 (3), 2014
Este artigo apresenta um protocolo desenvolvido para a investigação de sinais de desatenção e hiperatividade em crianças e adolescentes, sob os aspectos comportamentais, neuropsicológicos e clínicos. A primeira fase é uma triagem telefônica. Na sequência, a avaliação é composta por uma triag...

Rolandic epilepsy and dyslexia

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 72 (11), 2014
Objective Although benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) is an idiopathic, age-related epilepsy syndrome with favorable outcome, recent studies have shown impairment in specific neuropsychological tests. The objective of this study was to analyze the comorbidity between dyslexia and BECTS. M...

Funciones ejecutivas y sintomatología asociada con los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria

Rev. latinoam. psicol; 46 (3), 2014
Estudios recientes coinciden en que las pacientes con trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA) presentan ineficiencias en las funciones ejecutivas secundarias al padecimiento. Así, el objetivo de este trabajo fue explorar la posibilidad de que tales ineficiencias formen parte del endofenotipo de los ...

Semantic memory for actions as assessed by the Kissing and Dancing Test: education and age effects in cognitively healthy individuals

Dement. neuropsychol; 8 (3), 2014
Action semantics is a relevant part of cognitive-linguistic assessment and the ?Kissing and Dancing Test? (KDT) has been used extensively for this purpose, evidencing clinical distinctions among brain-damaged patients. To enhance its use, reference values are necessary, especially for populations with he...

Estudio EDECO Estudio poblacional de deterioro cognitivo en población colombiana

Acta méd. colomb; 39 (3), 2014
Objetivo: se presenta un estudio poblacional de deterioro cognitivo de un grupo de ancianos valorados en la comunidad en los cuales se determinó la prevalencia de deterioro cognitivo a través de la prueba del reloj. Material y métodos: se valoraron 803 ancianos que habitaban en comunidad, durante los ...

Efecto de una intervención cognitivo conductual en el conflicto marital por infidelidad

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Psychol. av. discip; 8 (2), 2014
Este artículo presenta el efecto de una intervención cognitivo conductual en el conflicto marital por infidelidad siguiendo las etapas propuestas por Baucom, Snyder y Gordon (2009). Estudio de caso intrasujeto AB con seguimiento, que se realizó con muestra de cinco parejas. Se aplicó el Inventario de...

Panic disorder and exercise avoidance

Objectives: 1) To identify whether patients with panic disorder in general and those with the respiratory subtype in particular actively avoid exercise; 2) to investigate physiological differences in cardiopulmonary function parameters in patients with panic disorder in general, patients with the respira...

The Basis and Applications of the Action Fluency and Action Naming Tasks

Dement. neuropsychol; 8 (1), 2014
The Action Fluency (AF) and Action Naming (AN) are different tasks involving verb generation. Evidence indicates that verb tasks yield different information from that obtained with nouns. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyze the information available in the scientific literature on the mechanism and cl...

Overcoming barriers in cognitive assessment of Alzheimers disease

Dement. neuropsychol; 8 (2), 2014
Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) requires a reliable neuropsychological assessment, but major barriers are still encountered when such tests are used across cultures and during the lifespan. This is particularly problematic in developing countries where most of the available assessment tools have be...