Upper limb performance is affected by diabetes mellitus (DM). Neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is a key structure to understand the relationship between performance and morphology in DM. The aim of the study was to analyze NMJ plasticity due to DM in an animal model and its relationship with the function of ...
Resumen La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo comparar el desempeño en ejecución de las pruebas de cognición social en los perfiles de niños y niñas vinculados al acoso escolar en una institución educativa pública de la ciudad de Neiva. Con un diseño de tipo transversal y a través de un ...
La reserva neural es un subcomponente de la reserva cognitiva y refiere a las diferencias en los paradigmas cognitivos que subyacen al desempeño de tareas en un cerebro sano. Puede darse por diferencias innatas (inteligencia, edad) o ambientales, como el entrenamiento musical. Éste está relacionado co...
The mobile phone has been part of daily activities and offers various facilities for the elderly. Like other conveniences of modern life their use may have some effects that should be explored. Objective: To investigate the effect of cell phones on the functional mobility of adults (GA) and the elderly (...
Resumo Objetivo Estimar o nível de capacidade funcional, as doenças autorreferidas e fatores associados entre idosos comunitários. Métodos Estudo quantitativo, descritivo, transversal, realizado com 159 idosos. Foram utilizados o questionário Brazil Old Age Schedule (BOAS), a escala de Lawton e ...
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify critical requirements for nursing practice when responding to hydrological disasters in the rural area. Method: A descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study was developed. The Critical Incidents Technique was adopted. Twenty public health nurses who worked during the...
RESUMO Objetivo Mensurar o esforço auditivo com o uso de um paradigma de tarefa dupla de memória operacional e analisar a significância clínica do desempenho de indivíduos normo-ouvintes. Método Participaram 10 adultos jovens, entre 18 e 30 anos, de ambos os gêneros, normo-ouvintes classificados...
ABSTRACT Purpose This study investigated the effects of two levels of noise on the performance of young students of three educational levels and tested their ability to maintain attentional focus in reading and writing tasks. Methods 162 school children in the third, fourth and fifth grades were placed...
Abstract Governments and private companies have increased efforts to identify effective actions for improving energy efficiency in manufacturing processes. The objective of this work is to improve the decision-making process by increasing the quality of information related to energy indicators in the foo...
Although normal aging has been related to several cognitive difficulties, other processes have been studied less, such as spatial memory. Our aim was to compare egocentric and allocentric memory in an elderly population using ecological tasks. Twenty-eight cognitively unimpaired participants performed Eg...
Envejecimiento/fisiología,
Envejecimiento/psicología,
Análisis de Varianza,
Disfunción Cognitiva/fisiopatología,
Disfunción Cognitiva/psicología,
Envejecimiento Saludable/fisiología,
Envejecimiento Saludable/psicología,
Pruebas Neuropsicológicas,
Factores Sexuales,
Percepción Espacial/fisiología,
Memoria Espacial/fisiología,
Navegación Espacial/fisiología,
Análisis y Desempeño de Tareas
