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Características Cognitivas e Comportamentais Associadas à Distrofia Muscular de Duchenne: Revisão Integrativa

A Distrofia Muscular de Duchenne (DMD) é uma doença neuromuscular progressiva recessiva causada por mutações genéticas ligadas ao cromossomo X. Além do enfraquecimento muscular progressivo, a condição é associada a alterações neuropsicológicas. O objetivo deste estudo foi realizar uma revisã...

Cognitive impairment among older adults with HIV: a systematic review protocol of cohort studies

OBJECTIVES: This review will determine whether the incidence of cognitive impairment in HIV patients aged ≥ 50 years is greater than that of their HIV-negative peers. METHODS: The MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS, Web of Science, and Scopus databases will be searched for studies with a sample of individuals age...

Effects of home-based physical exercise programs on cognition in older adults: an integrative review

This study sought to review randomized clinical trials of home-based physical exercises and their effects on cognition in older adults. An integrative review was carried out after searching the PubMed, Google Scholar, MEDLINE, LILACS, SciELO, and PEDro databases. The risk of bias of the included randomiz...

Self-perceived cognitive function and neuropsychological performance in women with fibromyalgia

Rev. méd. Chile; 150 (11), 2022
BACKGROUND: Cognitive dysfunction is a common complain in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). Aim: To assess the perceived cognitive function and cognitive performance in women with FM. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Cross-sectional study including 100 women with FM (FMG) and 100 healthy controls (CG). Self-perceive...

Habilitación de funciones frontales básicas en cardiópatas congénitos a través de LEGO® Education

Las cardiopatías congénitas se consideran una de las anomalías que alteran la irrigación y el intercambio de oxigenación adecuado a las principales venas y arterias. Esto puede generar consecuencias en el desarrollo neurológico que se puede traducir en retraso psicomotor, déficits de aprendizaje, ...

Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome due to cerebellar atrophy: case report

Cerebellar atrophy is a rare and challenging disease with few descriptions in the medical literature. Motor impairment is mild, but behavioral and linguistic alterations stand out, in what is known as the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome secondary to cerebellar atrophy. We report the case of an ol...

Estudio exploratorio para la validación de la Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis (BICAMS) en la población con esclerosis múltiple remitente recurrente del Hospital San Juan de Dios en Santiago de Chile

La evaluación cognitiva en personas adultas con esclerosis múltiple (EM) es un área fundamental a tener en cuenta en el proceso de intervención, debido a la alta prevalencia de deterioro cognitivo. En la actualidad, se ha recomendado la evaluación cognitiva por medio de la BICAMS (del inglés Brief ...

Homebound Elderly People Psychotherapeutic Intervention (HEPPI): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Objective: To present the study protocol for the Homebound Elderly People Psychotherapeutic Intervention (HEPPI), a home-delivered cognitive-emotional intervention aimed at homebound older adults with mild cognitive impairment and depression and/or anxiety symptoms. Methods: A two-arm, open-label, parall...

Síndrome Pos-COVID y Síndrome de Fatiga Crónica: ¿Dos caras de la misma moneda?
POST-COVID SYNDROME AND CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN

Prensa méd. argent; 107 (7), 2021
El síndrome de fatiga crónica es una enfermedad caracterizada, principalmente, por la manifestación de la fatiga, el dolor muscular difuso, y alteraciones en el sueño, en un periodo de no menos de 6 meses y que no son explicables por alguna causa. Es llamativo que, luego de un periodo de tiempo de pa...