459 research outputs found
The huge burden of dementia in Latin America
Get PDFAs mentioned in your Editorial,1 dementia is having a huge social and economic eff ect in Latin American countries. The prevalence of dementia in people aged 65 years and older is about 7·1%.2 As the population continues to age, about 7·6 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean are estimated to develop dementia by 2030.3 Latin America faces the same challenges in dealing with dementia as rich countries do, but with a much lower level of preparedness and relatively little awareness. For example, we have reported4 that, even among neurologists, a substantial number of practicing physicians that diagnose dementia will do so without providing a specifi c diagnosis of the dementia type.Fil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentin
Facundo Manes: “la educación , la ciencia y la tecnología deben ser la principal política de un país"
Get PDFEl neurocientífico Facundo Manes, Asesor de la Gobernadora María Eugenia Vidal, realizó la conferencia de apertura del Tercer Congreso de Ciencia y Tecnología que organizó la CIC y dejó sus impresiones acerca de los desafíos que tienen los gobernantes e investigadores de la Provincia y el país
Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Frontotemporal Dementia
No full textDiagnosis of Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) requires -besides brain imagining- a careful evaluation of diverse aspects including genetic and neuropathological, behavioural problems and cognitive processes. The complexity of the symptoms observed in this disease damaging the frontal and temporal lobes creates the necessity for a very careful neuropsychological examination.In this chapter we present all the test and batteries usefull to assess Frontotemporal dementia.Fil: Torralva, Teresa. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Martínez Cuitiño Carricaburo, María Macarena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Clinical effects of insular damage in humans
Get PDFMultiple disturbances following lesions of the insula are reviewed in the present article, including those related to autonomic function; gustatory, olfactory, auditory, somatosensory, and multimodal perception, as well as body awareness; the emotion of disgust; mood and willed action, addiction behavior, and language. Given the multiple and varied nature of the impairments revealed by lesion studies, we suggest that the insula, as a multimodal area, has a major role as a convergence zone implicated in the coordination between internal and external information through emotional subjective awareness. Methodological issues are discussed with attention paid to lesion etiology, and lesions involving adjacent areas to the insular cortex.Fil: Ibañez, Agustin Mariano. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Gleichgerrcht, Ezequiel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentin
Our brain enjoys making friends
Get PDFIs it important to have friends? Why do we enjoy spending time with them? Do we learn differently around our friends? Neuroscience research is helping us to answer some of these questions by looking at the way our brain allows us to, and benefts from, interacting with other humans. Part of the reason why human brains are so complex is that our interactions with others are so complex; we are social creatures and have been living in groups for thousands of years. Our brain has developed the ability to handle the complexity of the social world that our species (human beings) have created. We organize our interactions into different levels of complexity: we tell apart our closest family members, we can help our neighbors, we belong to a nation, and we recognize ourselves as a part of the large world. But why have humans developed such complex social organizations? Interacting with others has been helpful to us as a species: there is something about cooperating with others that made us more ft to survive through evolution.Fil: Gleichgerrcht, Ezequiel. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Salvarezza, Florencia. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Methodological Considerations Regarding Cognitive Interventions in Dementia
Get PDFDementia causes massive cognitive, affective, and social impairment as well as concomitant functional decline. Cognitive interventions, together with pharmacological treatments, are acknowledged as important tools to delay mental weakening in dementing populations and to preserve the life quality of patients and their relatives (Prince et al., 2011; Woods et al., 2012). Given the socioeconomic impact of dementia on the health system, it is critical to assess cognitive intervention techniques in terms of cost-efficiency (Hurd et al., 2013). Nevertheless, most recent reports have neglected this issue, showing small, non-replicated, or even null results (Olazarán et al., 2010). Arguably, this is partly so because researchers are more specialized in the study of impairments than in the design of intervention programs. Consequently, there is no agreement on how to define cognitive intervention or how to measure its success (Giordano et al., 2010; Fernández-Prado et al., 2012).Fil: Ibáñez Barassi, Agustín Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina. Australian Research Council Centre Of Excellence In Cog; Australia. Universidad Autonoma del Caribe; ColombiaFil: Richly, Pablo. Australian Research Council Centre Of Excellence In Cog; Australia. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Roca, María. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Australian Research Council Centre Of Excellence In Cog; Australia. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Bridging psychiatry and neurology through social neuroscience
Get PDFEn este trabajo se resalta el rol multinivel de la neurociencia social para construir puentes entre los cuadros psiquiátricos y neurológicos a través de la presentación de la versión conductual de la demencia frontotemporal (vcDFT). Se analizas el rol de la genética, las redes cerebrales de atrofia, la cognición social y los factores socioculturales en la explicación de la conducta social de la bvFTD.Fil: Ibañez, Agustin Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Kuljis, Rodrigo O.. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Matallana, Diana. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; ColombiaFil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentin
Revista de Psicología, 2005, Vol. 1 N°2 (número completo)
No full textComprensión de las Diferencias de Sexo en la Adaptación de los Niños al Divorcio: Inferencia en la Práctica / Pedro R. Portes ; Joe H. Brown -- Funciones ejecutivas y Trastornos de Lóbulo Frontal / Facundo Manes ; Teresa Torralba -- Persona bajo la lluvia. Consideraciones teóricas y criterios de interpretación / María Inés Sivori -- Las dimensiones del Perdón / Silvia Franchi -- La evaluación de los valores en adolescentes: su relación con variables Sociodemográficas e intelectuales /María Martina Casullo ; Mercedes Fernández Liporace -- La relación entre factores de riesgo para la Salud Mental y Psicopatología en la Niñez / Inés Di Bártolo -- Recensiones bibliográfica
Gesture influences the processing of figurative language in non-native speakers: ERP evidence
No full textGestures should play a role in second language comprehension, given their importance in conveying contextual information. In this study, the N400 and the LPC were evaluated in a task involving the observation of videos showing utterances accompanied by gestures. Students studying advanced (G-High participants) and basic German (G-Low participants) as a second language were investigated. The utterance-gesture congruence and metaphoric meaning of content were manipulated during the task. As in previous ERP reports with native speakers, metaphorical expressions were sensitive to gestures. In G-Low participants, no modulation in the 300-500 ms window was observed, and only a modest effect was observed for the 500-700 ms window. More subtle differences of verbal expression were not processed in this group. Consistent with previous reports of the same paradigm with native speakers, the N400 from G-High group discriminated both congruent and incongruent gestures as well as literal and metaphorical sentences. Our results suggest that semantic processing is robust in the learning of a second language, although the amplitude modulation and latency of ERPs might depend on the speaker's proficiency level. © 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.Fil: Ibáñez Barassi, Agustín Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; ChileFil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Fundación Favaloro. Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Escobar, Josefina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Universidad Católica de Chile; ChileFil: Trujillo, Natalia. Universidad de Antioquia; ColombiaFil: Andreucci, Paola. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Universidad Católica de Chile; ChileFil: Hurtado, Esteban. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile. Universidad Católica de Chile; Chil
Decision-making cognition in neurodegenerative diseases
No full textA large proportion of human social neuroscience research has focused on the issue of decision-making. Impaired decision-making is a symptomatic feature of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, but the nature of these decision-making deficits depends on the particular disease. Thus, examining the qualitative differences in decision-making impairments associated with different neurodegenerative diseases could provide valuable information regarding the underlying neural basis of decision-making. Nevertheless, few comparative reports of decision-making across patient groups exist. In this Review, we examine the neuroanatomical substrates of decision-making in relation to the neuropathological changes that occur in Alzheimer disease, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson disease and Huntington disease. We then examine the main findings from studies of decision-making in these neurodegenerative diseases. Finally, we suggest a number of recommendations that future studies could adopt to aid our understanding of decision-making cognition.Fil: Gleichgerrcht, Ezequiel. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Ibañez, Agustin Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; ChileFil: Roca, María. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Torralva, Teresa. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; ArgentinaFil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentin
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