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Neuropsychology is the study of the relationship between brain function and behavior, focusing on how neurological conditions affect cognitive processes, emotions, and actions. It integrates principles from psychology and neuroscience to assess and treat individuals with brain injuries or disorders.
Dystrophin is an important protein within the central nervous system. The absence of dystrophin, characterizing Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), is associated with brain related comorbidities such as neurodevelopmental (e.g., cognitive... more
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... more
Objective: Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME) is a common genetic generalized epilepsy syndrome. Several studies have detailed cognitive and imaging abnormalities pointing to frontal lobe dysfunction, as well as disadvantageous behavioral... more
Background-Methamphetamine (METH) is an increasing popular and highly addictive psychostimulant with a significant impact on public health. Chronic METH exposure has been associated with neurotoxic effects, profound neuropsychological... more
Supratotal resection of primary brain tumors is being advocated especially when involving "non-eloquent" tissue. However, there is extensive neuropsychological data implicating functions critical to higher cognition in areas considered... more
Resection of the insular cortex is becoming more frequent as it is increasingly recognized that a nonnegligible proportion of surgical candidates with drug-resistant epilepsy have an epileptogenic zone that involves the insula. In the... more
Regional cerebral blood flow was investigated using single photon emission computed tomography and xenon-133 intravenous injection in six patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) with atypical focal clinical presentation, and in... more
Brain injury following treatment of anterior communicating artery aneurysms 1.7 Physiological derangement and choice of treatment modality 1.8 Invasive imaging in patients with perimesencephalic subarachnoid haemorrhage 1.9 Delayed... more
B ackground and aims: The aim was to review the empirical literature to determine the nature and breadth of research into the working alliance (WA) in acquired brain injury (ABI) rehabilitation. Method: A scoping review was conducted,... more
Because anti-inflammatory drugs may delay cognitive decline and influence brain metabolism in normal aging, the authors determined the effects of the cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor, celecoxib, on cognitive performance and regional cerebral... more
Tout d'abord, je tiens à remercier les rapporteurs de mon jury, qui ont bien voulu évaluer ce travail : le Docteur Catherine Belzung et le Professeur Mircea Polosan. Je tiens à exprimer ma profonde et sincère gratitude envers le... more
O executivo central (EC) é o sistema de controle atencional do modelo multicomponente da memória de trabalho. Ele distribui recursos de atenção para os componentes de armazenamento, e propicia condições para manutenção e manipulação das... more
Resumo DUARTE, Ana; GOMEZ, Luz; AGUIRRE, Daniel e PINEDA, David. Caracterización neuropsicológica de los pacientes adultos en diálisis de una institución especializadade Medellín-Colombia. Univ. Psychol.[online]. 2006, vol. 5, n. 3, pp.... more
It is known that the left hemisphere of the human brain is critical in understanding and producing spoken language, but it remains a topic of great interest determining the cerebral lateralization of multiple languages. The aim of this... more
While neuropsychological deficits have been reported in healthy individuals who use cannabis, data in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are lacking. Given that MS is associated with cognitive deterioration, the aim of this study was... more
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a recently described syndrome is considered a transitional phase between healthy cognitive aging and dementia. The differences in the cognitive profile and clinical progression among individualswith mild... more
Neuropsychological deficits are found in both schizophrenic patients and their relatives, and some studies have shown similar, but less severe, deficits in affective psychotic patients and their relatives. We set out to establish –... more
Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common motor disability in childhood (2 to 3 per 1000 live births), and is frequently accompanied by cognitive impairments and behavioural problems. Children with CP are at increased risk of... more
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Spatial orientation is an important function in daily life because it allows us to reach a target place when moving through our environment, using self-centered (egocentric) or environmental information (allocentric). Compared to other... more
Background The verbal fluency task is a widely used psychometric test to account for cognitive functions, particularly, verbal and executive functions. Being an easy and fast test to administer, it is a good neuropsychological tool in low... more
Data regarding clinical and neuropsychological features of attention deficit in children with lower cognitive ability is still scarce. The objective was to analyze the response patterns on the Continuous Performance Test II in children... more
Suicide and homicide are considered important problems in public health. This study aims to identify the cognitive performance of suicidal and homicidal behaviors in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, as well as examining... more
A longitudinal study of asymptomatic individuals at risk of autosomal dominant familial Alzheimer's disease was performed to assess the earliest clinical and neuropsychological features of the disease. Over a 6-year period, 63 subjects... more
Objectives:Normative data should consider sociodemographic diversity for the accurate diagnosis of cognitive impairment. This study aims to provide normative data for a brief neuropsychological battery and present diagnostic criteria for... more
Background: Early detection of neurodegenerative diseases is essential for treatment and proper care of these patients. Screening tools available today are effective for several types of dementia. However, there is no one specific for... more
Background: African patients with heart failure (HF) are younger, have lower socio-economic and educational level as well as high prevalence of hypertension related aetiology. However, the prevalence and pattern of cognitive dysfunction... more
Social deprivation leads to various neuroanatomical, neuropsychological and behavioral disturbances in humans as well as in experimental animals. Shared characteristics of socially deprived subjects and subjects with autism have been... more
This review summarizes neurobiological and genetic findings in behavioural addictions, draws parallels with findings pertaining to substance use disorders, and offers suggestions for future research. Articles concerning brain function,... more
This review summarizes neurobiological and genetic findings in behavioural addictions, draws parallels with findings pertaining to substance use disorders, and offers suggestions for future research. Articles concerning brain function,... more
This study reports on several specific neurocognitive processes and eye-tracking predictors of reading outcomes for a sample of children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorderinattentive subtype... more
Even though cognitive impairment in brain vascular disease has been widely described, there is not much known about specific neuropsychological profiles in affected families suffering from hereditary vascular dementia CADASIL. In Colombia... more
It was hypothesized that subjective memory complaints represent the earliest sign of dementia in carriers of the presenilin-1 (PS1) mutation. A total of 122 subjects (44 males, 78 females) were included in this study. Forty of them were... more
Previous work examining the cortical-subcortical distinction as it relates to cognitive patterns has not typically used genetic confirmation to identify these groups, controlled for age, or used a comprehensive battery to assess specific... more
Sudden retrograde memory loss, in the absence of neurological causes, is usually referred to as a dissociative symptom. Dissociative amnesia, defined in the DSM-V as an inability to remember important autobiographical experiences, usually... more
Purpose Visual unilateral spatial neglect (VUSN) is a neuropsychological condition commonly experienced after stroke whereby patients are unable to attend to stimuli on the controlesional side of their space. VUSN can occur in the... more
What role does perception play in human cognition? This is an important question in the research area of psychology. The current study aimed at exploring the influence of visual perceptual experience on human color cognition, by comparing... more
There is a growing interest in the use of functional imaging to assess brain activity in the absence of behavioural responses in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC). In the present study, we applied a hierarchical auditory... more
Background Although most aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) patients suffer from neuropsychological disabilities, outcome estimation is commonly based only on functional disability scales such as the modified Rankin Scale (mRS).... more
Past research suggests that unawareness of illness in schizophrenia is associated with deficits in executive functions; however, the relationships between executive processes and the various dimensions of insight are still unclear. Recent... more
In this case report, real-time neuropsychological testing (RTNT) and music listening were applied for resections in the left temporal–parietal lobe during awake surgery (AS). The case is based on a 66-year-old with glioblastoma and... more
Both early and later forms of Buddhism developed a set of arguments to demonstrate that the self is an illusion. This article begins with a brief review of some of the arguments but then proceeds to show that these arguments are not... more
have presented thoughtful comments and provocative challenges to my article "What Kind of an Illusion is the Illusion of Self?" Their challenges raise significant questions about the nature of illusion, whether Buddhism is denying the... more
We wanted to evaluate how the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent isolation have influenced some psychological characteristics according to the model of the Big Five theory in a group of adolescents suffering from chronic diseases such as... more
Traumatic brain injury is described as a blow to the head or a penetrating head damage which disturb the normal function of the brain. Traumatic brain injuries, in children are common and sometimes are powerful in threatening the life and... more
Pain is an experience that none of us would like to have but that each one of us is destined to experience in our lives. Despite its pervasiveness, the experience of pain remains problematic and complex in its depth. Pain is a... more
Objective: Neuroimaging evidences in eating disorder (ED) patients document dysfunctional neural activity of the posterior parietal cortex, which is engaged in the representation of body schema. Yet a full neuropsychological investigation... more