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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...

Estrés y deterioro cognitivo en pacientes con diagnóstico de esquizofrenia

El presente es un estudio no experimental, transversal y correlacional, cuyo objetivo era determinar si existe relación entre estrés y deterioro cognitivo en personas con diagnóstico de esquizofrenia, confirmar si la depresión y las estrategias de afrontamiento del estrés se relacionan y si son fact...

Asociación entre trastornos respiratorios del sueño y rendimiento académico en niños de Concepción, Chile

Arch. argent. pediatr; 115 (5), 2017
El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar la asociación del rendimiento académico en áreas de Matemática, Lenguaje y Ciencias con la existencia de trastornos respiratorios del sueño (TRS) en escolares sanos de la ciudad de Concepción, Chile. Se consideraron niños sanos sin enfermedades concomitan...

High education accelerates cognitive decline in dementia: A brief report from the population-based NEDICES cohort

Dement. neuropsychol; 11 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT High education has been associated with faster cognitive decline after diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but it is unclear whether these findings extend to other dementia subtypes. OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether educational attainment influences the cognitive trajectories of older adul...

Mini-mental state exam for children (MMC) in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy

Dement. neuropsychol; 11 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT Cognitive impairment is frequent in cerebral palsy (CP) and there is a lack of multiprofessional screening instruments. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the utility of the Mini-Mental State Examination for Children (MMC), an adapted version of the Mini-Mental State Examinatio...

The Five Digits Test in the assessment of older adults with low formal education: construct validity and reliability in a Brazilian clinical sample

Abstract Introduction In the assessment of older adults with very low formal education, typical tests of selective attention and inhibitory control are biased by reading abilities. In this sense, we aim to assess the psychometric characteristics of the Five Digits Test (FDT), a numerical Stroop paradig...

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...

Disfunción cognitiva en lupus eritematoso sistémico y su asociación con actividad y daño
Cognitive dysfunction in systemic lupus erythematosus in relation to disease activity and damage

Medicina (B.Aires); 77 (4), 2017
El lupus eritematoso sistémico (LES), es una enfermedad reumatológica, que puede presentar en su evolución alteraciones neurocognitivas, con importante compromiso fronto-subcortical. Sin embargo, existe escasa evidencia publicada sobre la relación entre la disfunción cognitiva y la actividad y daño...

Mild cognitive impairment and progression to dementia of Alzheimer's disease

Summary The increase in life expectancy in the Brazilian population raises questions about the preparation of the public health system in identifying elderly patients with signs of cognitive impairment. Currently, as a consequence of the long duration of preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease, efforts ...