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El "efecto Tortoni" en la prosopagnosia

Medicina (B.Aires); 81 (5), 2021
Resumen La prosopagnosia es un tipo de agnosia visual caracterizada por la incapacidad de reconocer los rostros de las personas. Existen básicamente dos variantes, aperceptivas y asociativas. El "efecto Tortoni" es un fenómeno descripto por Bekinschtein y col. hace unos años en mozos de café en Bueno...

Brief version of the CAMCOG for illiterate older adults with Alzheimer's dementia

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 79 (10), 2021
Abstract Background: The Cambridge Cognition Examination (CAMCOG) is one of the most used cognitive assessment batteries for older adults. Objective: To evaluate a brief version of the CAMCOG for illiterate older adults (CAMCOG-BILL) with Alzheimer's dementia (AD) and healthy controls (CG). Methods: C...

Long-Term Neurophysiological Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Abstract Introduction: This study aims to evaluate late postoperative neurophysiological outcomes in patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Methods: Forty-five male patients with stable coronary artery disease aged 45-69 years underwent extended neuropsychological assessment using the s...

Associação entre classes funcionais da insuficiência cardíaca com fração de ejeção preservada e comprometimento cognitivo

Rev. bras. neurol; 57 (3), 2021
INTRODUÇÃO: A insuficiência cardíaca (IC) é uma síndrome resultante de defeitos estruturais e funcionais da bomba cardíaca, mais de 80% dos pacientes são idosos, com diversas comorbidades associadas. A demência é definida por qualquer desordem onde o declínio significativo do nível prévio de...

Demencia frontotemporal desde una mirada neuropsicológica
Frontotemporal dementia from a neuropsychological point of view

Rev. cuba. med. mil; 50 (3), 2021
Introducción: La riqueza de las manifestaciones neuropsicológicas de la demencia frontotemporal, ha permitido la identificación de diferentes variantes de la enfermedad, sin embargo, existen pacientes en los que se entrelazan las características clínicas de más de una variante, lo que ha llevado a ...

Reading fluency as a measure of educational level

ABSTRACT Education exerts a powerful influence on the performance on neuropsychological tests. Recently, the number of years that a person attends school has been the preferred method to operationalize educational level (EL). However, reading fluency (RF) has emerged as an alternative method that can def...

Depressive symptoms may be associated with semantic memory decline in elderly adults

ABSTRACT Depressive symptoms are associated with a decline of episodic memory, but the relationship with semantic memory remains unclear. Objective: The aim of the study was to analyze the relationship of depressive symptoms with the semantic memory in a community-based sample of elderly adults. The sa...

Comparación del perfil neurocognitivo entre niños de 3 a 6 años con y sin discapacidad auditiva
Comparison of the neurocognitive profile between children aged 3 to 6 years with and without hearing impairmen

Rev. Eugenio Espejo; 15 (3), 2021
El estudio tuvo como objetivo comparar el perfil neurocognitivo pacientes pediátricos normo-yentes de edades entre 3 a 6 años, con respecto al de niños en ese mismo grupo etario que presen-tan discapacidad auditiva, los que utilizaban un implante coclear por entre 24 a 36 meses. Para alcanzarlo, se hi...

Regional brain atrophy is related to social cognition impairment in multiple sclerosis

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 79 (8), 2021
ABSTRACT Background: Multiple sclerosis exhibits specific neuropathological phenomena driving to both global and regional brain atrophy. At the clinical level, the disease is related to functional decline in cognitive domains as the working memory, processing speed, and verbal fluency. However, the comp...