Results: 13

Behavioral, affective, and cognitive alterations induced by individual and combined environmental stressors in rats

Objective: To evaluate whether exposing rats to individual or combined environmental stressors triggers endophenotypes related to mood and anxiety disorders, and whether this effect depends on the nature of the behavior (i.e., innate or learned). Methods: We conducted a three-phase experimental protocol...

Diferenciación clínica del déficit cognitivo del CADASIL con respecto a otras demencias vasculares

En el mundo hay unos 47 millones de personas que padecen demencia, y cada año se registran cerca de 10 millones de nuevos casos. La demencia es una de las principales causas de discapacidad y dependencia entre las personas mayores de 65 años. La demencia vascular constituye la segunda causa de demencia...

Perfil neuropsicológico y efectos de la rehabilitación cognitiva en la leucemia linfoblástica aguda: a propósito de un caso

La Leucemia Linfoblástica Aguda (LLA) infantil es el cáncer pediátrico más frecuente. Actualmente cuenta con un alto porcentaje de supervivencia, pero dichos pacientes presentan secuelas cognitivas secundarias a la enfermedad debidas, principalmente, al tratamiento médico recibido para evitar la rec...

Alteraciones del neurodesarrollo en pacientes con hipotiroidismo congénito: Recomendaciones para el seguimiento

Rev. méd. Chile; 145 (12), 2017
Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is the most common cause of preventable cognitive disability worldwide. Generally, it is produced by an alteration in the embryogenesis of the thyroid gland or by an alteration in the synthesis of thyroid hormones, which determine that affected patients have low or absent t...

Cognitive performance of premature infants: association between bronchopulmonary dysplasia and cognitive skills. Cross-sectional study

Säo Paulo med. j; 135 (4), 2017
ABSTRACT CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Children born prematurely often have worse cognitive performance than those born at term regarding skills such as memory, attention and processing speed. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia may compromise cognitive development. The aims here were: a) To describe the cognitive perf...

Functional decline in the elderly with MCI: Cultural adaptation of the ADCS-ADL scale

Summary Objective: Translate, transcultural adaptation and application to Brazilian Portuguese of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study - Activities of Daily Living (ADCS-ADL) scale as a cognitive screening instrument. Method: We applied the back translation added with pretest and bilingual methods...

Sex-specific cognitive abnormalities in early-onset psychosis

Objectives: Brain maturation differs depending on the area of the brain and sex. Girls show an earlier peak in maturation of the prefrontal cortex. Although differences between adult females and males with schizophrenia have been widely studied, there has been less research in girls and boys with psychos...

Estratégias metacognitivas de leitura de crianças com distúrbio de aprendizagem

CoDAS; 29 (3), 2017
RESUMO Objetivo verificar o uso de estratégias metacognitivas de leitura de crianças com Distúrbio de Aprendizagem e averiguar se há relação entre este uso e a compreensão de textos. Método participaram 30 crianças, de 8 a 12 anos, de ambos os gêneros, divididas em grupo experimental (GE) - 1...

Cognitive performance and psychosocial functioning in patients with bipolar disorder, unaffected siblings, and healthy controls

Objective: To assess cognitive performance and psychosocial functioning in patients with bipolar disorder (BD), in unaffected siblings, and in healthy controls. Methods: Subjects were patients with BD (n=36), unaffected siblings (n=35), and healthy controls (n=44). Psychosocial functioning was accessed ...

Components of the metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms in community-dwelling older people: the Bambuí Cohort Aging Study

Objective: To investigate the moderating effect of an increasing number of clustered metabolic syndrome (MetS) components on the association between MetS and depressive symptoms in a population-based cohort of older adults in Brazil. Methods: This analysis used data from the Bambuí Cohort Aging Study. ...