Resumen: En 2022 el Código Penal cubano incorporó una nueva fórmula de inimputabilidad. Este artículo aborda el problema de cómo interpretarla y aplicarla durante las pericias psiquiátricas a imputados. Es su objetivo analizar desde la Psiquiatría dicha fórmula penal para su interpretación foren...
Resumen | Introducción. Los pacientes con cáncer presentan niveles significativos de malestar emocional. La National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) desarrolló un instrumento (Distress Management) para evaluarlo de forma rápida en pacientes oncológicos. Para su utilización en Colombia, se hizo ...
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the accuracy of two semantic categories of the verbal fluency test (supermarket and animal categories) to separate healthy elderly individuals and lower educated Alzheimer’s disease patients. METHODS: We evaluated 69 older adults with less than 5 years of schooling, consisting of 31...
Abstract Background Alexithymia is reported to be a risk factor for depression. Psychotherapy is efficient for treatment of depression. Yet, the effect of psychotherapies on alexithymia is poorly understood. Objectives We aimed to compare Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Psychotherapy (E...
The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is the most widely used instrument for the screening of older adults with suspected cognitive impairment; the MMSE has been translated and validated in numerous languages and countries. The cultural and sociodemographic characteristics of the sample can influence ...
OBJETIVO: O delirium é uma das síndromes mais frequentes em idosos admitidos nas unidades de urgência e, apesar de apresentar sintomas e sinais bem estabelecidos, ainda há falhas de diagnóstico. Dessa forma, o objetivo do estudo foi adaptar o Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMT) como teste de rastrei...
OBJECTIVES: The goal was to identify predictors of poor-quality spirometry in community-dwelling older adults and their respective cutoffs. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional population-based study involving 245 elderly subjects (age≥60 years). The spirometric data were categorized as good or poo...
Caye, Arthur;
Kieling, Renata R;
Rocha, Thiago B;
Graeff-Martins, Ana S;
Geyer, Cristiane;
Krieger, Fernanda;
Manfro, Gisele G;
Brentani, Helena;
Isolan, Luciano;
Rosário, Maria C;
Grassi-Oliveira, Rodrigo;
Caetano, Sheila C;
Moriyama, Tais;
Rohde, Luis A;
Kieling, Christian.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the role of the involvement of white matter tracts in huntingtin gene mutation patients as a potential biomarker of the progression of the disease. Methods We evaluated 34 participants (11 symptomatic huntingtin gene mutation, 12 presymptomatic huntingtin gene mutation,...
ABSTRACT Purpose: To assess cognitive performance differences among primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients, normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) patients, and healthy control (C) subjects. Methods: A total of 60 participants (20 POAG, 20 NTG, and 20 C subjects) were included in this study. A detailed oph...
Estudios de Casos y Controles,
Cognición,
Demencia/diagnóstico,
Demencia/fisiopatología,
Glaucoma de Ángulo Abierto,
Glaucoma de Baja Tensión,
Escala del Estado Mental/estadística & datos numéricos,
Fibras Nerviosas/fisiología,
Retina/anatomía & histología,
Retina/fisiopatología,
Células Ganglionares de la Retina/fisiología,
Tomografía de Coherencia Óptica/métodos
