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Influencia de un programa de intervención de enfermería para mejorar la memoria y calidad de vida en adultos mayores con deterioro cognitivo leve

Antecedentes: La aplicación de programas de estimulación para la memoria han sido considerados saludables, así mismo una vía para la promoción de la salud, la prevención y tratamiento en problemas de memoria por Deterioro Cognitivo Leve, los beneficios de la estimulación de memoria son innumerable...

Neuropsicología del trauma craneoencefálico en Cali, Colombia

Objetivo: realizar un análisis comparativo entre un grupo control y pacientes con trauma craneoencefálico (TCE) para determinar si existen diferencias neuropsicológicas a los seis meses de evolución y así orientar programas de intervención acordes con las necesidades de esta población. Materiales ...

Screening of cognitive impairmentby general internists usingtwo simple instruments

Dement. neuropsychol; 6 (1), 2012
General internists (GIs) tend to overlook cognitive impairment in the elderly. Lack of time to diagnose and/or poor knowledge on how to use screening instruments may be the reasons for this shortcoming. Objectives: To verifythe efficacy of simple instruments in the screening of cognitive impairment in el...

Efeito da dominância lateral no desempenho da destreza manual em pessoas com síndrome de Down

Acta fisiátrica; 19 (1), 2012
Objetivos: Avaliar o efeito da dominância lateral na destreza manual em um grupo de crianças e adolescentes com Síndrome de Down (SD) e comparar o resultado de participantes com SD com pessoas sem a síndrome. Métodos: Participaram do estudo 100 crianças e adolescentes de ambos os sexos e idade vari...

El efecto de autogeneración como estrategia de rehabilitación de la memoria

Psychol. av. discip; 5 (2), 2011
La memoria es uno de los procesos psicológicos más importantes en el desarrollo humano, ya que juega un papel esencial en el aprendizaje y en consecuencia en la realización de muchas de las actividades de la vida diaria; razón por la cual, el compromiso de esta facultad es considerada una de las alte...

Judgment in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimers disease

Dement. neuropsychol; 5 (4), 2011
Judgment is the capacity to make decisions after considering available information, contextual factors, possible solutions and probable outcomes. Our aim was to investigate previous research studies regarding assessment of judgment in older adults with different degrees of cognitive impairment. To this e...

Cognitive impairment in multiple system atrophy - changing concepts

Dement. neuropsychol; 5 (4), 2011
Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is characterized by a variable combination of cerebellar ataxia, parkinsonism and pyramidal signs associated with autonomic failure. Classically, cognitive impairment was not considered a clinical feature of MSA and dementia was pointed out as an exclusion diagnostic criteri...

Criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimers disease: recommendations of the Scientific Department of Cognitive Neurology and Aging of theBrazilian Academy of Neurology

Dement. neuropsychol; 5 (3), 2011
This consensus prepared by the Scientific Department of Cognitive Neurology and Aging of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology is aimed at recommending new criteria for the diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimers disease (AD) in Brazil. A revision was performed of the proposals of clinical and of research crit...

Prospective memory in Alzheimers disease and mild cognitive impairment

Dement. neuropsychol; 5 (2), 2011
Prospective memory (PM) is defined as remembering to carry out intended actions at an appropriate point in the future, and can be categorized into three types of situation: time-, event-, and activity-based tasks. PM involves brain structures such as frontal and medial temporal cortices. The aim of this ...

Critérios para o diagnóstico de doença de Alzheimer

Dement. neuropsychol; 5 (supl 1), 2011
Este consenso realizado pelo Departamento Científico de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Envelhecimento da Academia Brasileira de Neurologia tem como objetivo recomendar novos critérios para diagnóstico de demência e doença de Alzheimer (DA) no Brasil. Foi realizada revisão das propostas de critérios clÃ...