Search results for "impairment"
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The Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) for Cognitive Impairment in multiple sclerosis (ms): a two years Longitudinal study in 300 patients.
2008
Risk factors for cognitive impairment in subjects with Behçet's disease
2004
In the present study we evaluated the prevalence and risk factors for cognitive impairment in subjects with Behçet's Disease (BD). The following risk factors were studied: age, education, disease duration, activity of disease, prednisone dosage, and anxiety and depression levels. Twenty-six BD out-patients without overt neurological involvement and 26 sex-matched controls completed a comprehensive neuropsychological battery. Compared to controls, BD subjects were significantly impaired on tasks evaluating long-term verbal and nonverbal memory, and visuospatial skills. Cognitive impairment was evident in 46.1% of BD patients compared with none of control subjects (p<.0001), with memory repr…
Motivos para el consumo de cibersexo y su relación con el grado de severidad
2018
La práctica del cibersexo es un comportamiento frecuente que puede desembocar en un patrón de consumo compulsivo, incontrolado y asociado a un deterioro funcional en diversos ámbitos (adicción al cibersexo). Por tanto, conocer los motivos que explicarían que una persona realice esta conducta (de modo recreativo o patológico) es prioritario. Así, este trabajo se plantea el objetivo de analizar la prevalencia de distintos motivos para el consumo de cibersexo, las diferencias en función del género y el vínculo entre estos motivos y los síntomas de consumo problemático. Tomando una muestra de 400 jóvenes (50% hombres) de entre 18-30 años (M=22.2), se constata que las motivaciones más frecuentes…
The generalizability of Older Adult Self-Report (OASR) syndromes of psychopathology across 20 societies
2020
Contains fulltext : 217516.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) Objectives: As the world population ages, psychiatrists will increasingly need instruments for measuring constructs of psychopathology that are generalizable to diverse elders. The study tested whether syndromes of co-occurring problems derived from self-ratings of psychopathology by US elders would fit self-ratings by elders in 19 other societies. Methods/design: The Older Adult Self-Report (OASR) was completed by 12 826 adults who were 60 to 102 years old in 19 societies from North and South America, Asia, and Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Europe, plus the United States. Individual and multigroup confirmatory…
Biomarkers clinici, biologici, cognitivi e comportamentali per la malattia di Alzheimer ed il Mild Cognitive Impairment: dati di popolazione dello Za…
Nel 2015, quasi 47 milioni di persone in tutto il mondo sono state colpite da demenza, e si prevede che i valori raggiungeranno 75 milioni entro il 2030 e 131 milioni entro il 2050, con il maggiore aumento previsto nei paesi a basso e medio reddito. Nonostante gli enormi costi dell'assistenza medica e sociale per i pazienti affetti da AD dipendano dalla gravità della malattia, i dati sulla prevalenza della demenza sulla base della gravità o dello stadio sono carenti soprattutto nei contesti rurali e con basso livello di istruzione. L'obiettivo principale di questo studio è di valutare l'interazione tra fattori di rischio legati alla fragilità, le performance cognitive e i sintomi comportame…
Teprotumumab Efficacy, Safety, and Durability in Longer-Duration Thyroid Eye Disease and Re-treatment
2022
PURPOSE To evaluate teprotumumab safety/efficacy in patients with thyroid eye disease (TED) who were nonresponsive or who experienced a disease flare. DESIGN The Treatment of Graves' Orbitopathy to Reduce Proptosis with Teprotumumab Infusions in an Open-Label Clinical Extension Study (OPTIC-X) is a teprotumumab treatment and re-treatment trial following the placebo-controlled teprotumumab Phase 3 Treatment of Graves' Orbitopathy (Thyroid Eye Disease) to Reduce Proptosis with Teprotumumab Infusions in a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Clinical Study (OPTIC) trial. PARTICIPANTS Patients who previously received placebo (n = 37) or teprotumumab (n = 14) in OPTIC. METHODS OPTIC nonresponders or …
Cognitive Frailty: An Update
2021
This review article provides an update of the empirical research on cognitive fragility conducted in the last four years. The studies retrieved were classified in four different categories. The first category includes articles relating cognitive frailty to cognitive reserve and which continue to highlight the importance of educational level. The second category includes recent research on cognitive fragility biomarkers, involving neuroimaging, metabolism and, in a novel way, microbiota. The third category includes research on how cognitive frailty is related to motor development and physical functioning, exploring e.g. the use of technology to study motor markers of cognitive frailty. Final…
Predicting the working alliance over the course of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy with the Rorschach Ego Impairment Index, self-reported defen…
2021
Better therapeutic alliances are known to predict better treatment outcomes, but little knowledge still exists on the patient characteristics that lead to better alliances. In a sample of 128 outpatients assigned to long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and suffering from mood and/or anxiety disorder, this study evaluated how the alliance, measured using the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI), is predicted by three different measures for assessing psychological resources and vulnerabilities: the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Revised (WAIS–R), the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ), and the Rorschach-based Ego Impairment Index (EII-2). All the three measures showed some ability to predict t…
Understanding of tactile pictures in visual impaired children
2015
The present PhD aims at understanding how Visual Impaired (VI) children process the tactile pictures that illustrate the tactile books specially designed for them. Our work is organized around two main axes of analysis. The first axis concentrates on the child who explores the tactile images, while the second axis focuses on the impact that the properties of these images can have on children’s haptic processing. Our researches included children presenting various degrees of visual impairment but without any associated disorders (in particular, without any cognitive delay), distinguishing early blind children from children with low vision. We also compared their performance with those of sig…