Neuroticism, intelligence, and intra-individual variability in elementary cognitive tasks : Testing the mental noise hypothesis. 'Neuroticismo, inteligencia y variabilidad intra-individual en tareas cognitivas elementales : contraste de la hip??tesis del ruido neuronal'

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Factores que detienen la generación de unidades de la meta en empresas que prestan servicios de rehabilitación a personas en condición de discapacidad

El objetivo del presente trabajo es el de presentar los diferentes factores administrativos que determinan la velocidad de generación de unidades de la meta de empresas que prestan servicios de rehabilitación a personas en condición de discapacidad física y/o cognitiva del Distrito Capital. Para cumplir este objetivo nos centramos en el estudio de una Institución tipo que presta servicios de rehabilitación, especialmente a niños con discapacidad. El alcance del trabajo, es la caracterización de una empresa que brinda servicios de rehabilitación, revisar que factores administrativos pueden resaltarse como importantes y necesarios dentro de la organización, establecer cuales son los efectos indeseables que tiene una institución de este tipo y por ultimo estimar cual puede ser el factor restrictivo que detiene la velocidad de generación de las unidades de meta de este tipo de empresas. Los autores aplicaron la Teoría de Restricciones TOC en este trabajo, por considerar que desde su filosofía, esta teoría proporciona los lineamientos para aproximarse a la problemática y para sugerir soluciones, que están plasmadas en un plan de acción de inmediata implementación y con rápidos y eficaces resultados. Esperamos que con este estudio se contribuya en la reflexión y en la redefinición de las empresas que prestan servicios de rehabilitación, para lograr, con las herramientas que la Teoría de Restricciones brinda, el desarrollo de un pensamiento interno que favorezca la mejora continua la cual redundara en mejores servicios para sus usuarios.

A productivity map of cognitive pretest methods for improving survey questions

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Assessment of the global intelligence and selective cognitive capacities in preterm 8-year-old children

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Embodied Autonomy in Digital Ecosystems: From Bio-Inspired Agents to Cognitive Systems

This paper proposes to promote autonomy in digital ecosystems so that it provides agents with information to improve the behavior of the digital ecosystem in terms of stability. This work proposes that, in digital ecosystems, autonomous agents can provide fundamental services and information. The final goal is to run the ecosystem, generate novel conditions and let agents exploit them. A set of evaluation measures must be defined as well. We want to provide an outline of some global indicators, such as heterogeneity and diversity, and establish relationships between agent behavior and these global indicators to fully understand interactions between agents, and to understand the dependence and autonomy relations that emerge between the interacting agents. Individual variations, interaction dependencies, and environmental factors are determinants of autonomy that would be considered. The paper concludes with a discussion of situations when autonomy is a milestone

Cognitive coherence in the evluation of a novel single item

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Intervención psicológica pre y post-quirúrgica para pacientes adultos con amputación de miembros superiores y/o inferiores

La presente revisión de la literatura tiene el objetivo de identificar las intervenciones psicológicas pre y postquirúrgicas para pacientes con amputación no traumática. Se identifica que las amputaciones por artropatía diabética son más frecuentes que las causadas por otras enfermedades aunque las amputaciones por cáncer, arterioesclerosis e infección también son prevalentes. La amputación es un evento altamente significativo en el sujeto y demanda un costoso reajuste que se ve influenciado por variables sociodemográficas y que tiene consecuencias psicosociales que requieren de la atención y acompañamiento de un equipo interdisciplinario. En la fase preoperatoria, al manifestarse ansiedad y temores subjetivos con respecto la amputación, las intervenciones se dirigen a favorecer la verbalización e identificación de recursos. En la fase postoperatoria se acompaña el proceso de adaptación y rehabilitación con el manejo de las consecuencias psicosociales más demandantes para el sujeto. La terapia cognitivo conductual en el proceso postoperatorio es la más frecuentemente utilizada.

Impulsando: programa de formación en luthería para víctimas del conflicto armado pertenecientes a las Fuerzas Armadas de Colombia

Impulsando es un programa de formación en luthería enfocado hacia la construcción y reparación de guitarras acústicas. La estructura programática consta de seis módulos de formación que incluyen fundamentos teóricos y aplicación práctica. El proyecto propone hacer cuatro talleres con una duración de setenta y dos horas, para grupos de doce participantes, donde los soldados discapacitados podrán desarrollar competencias técnicas y humanas que mejoren sus condiciones sociales.

WAIS Seminar:Evaluating the Cognitive Side of Information Interaction

Abstract In this talk, I'll focus on the work we've been doing on evaluating the cognitive side of dealing with information resources and increasingly complex user interfaces. While we can build increasingly powerful user interfaces, they often come at the cost of simple design and ease of use. I'll describe two specific studies: 1) work on the ORCHID project focused on measuring mental workload during tasks using fNIRS (a blood-oxygen-based brain scanner), and 2) a evaluation metric for measuring how much people learn during tasks. Together these provide advances towards understanding the cognitive side of information interaction, in working towards building better tools for users.

Funciones cognitivas de individuos positivos para VIH/SIDA asistentes a un programa de atención integral

Objetivos. Caracterizar el perfil neuropsicológico de una muestra de 22 pacientes diagnosticados con VIH/SIDA, de un hospital de 4to nivel de Bogotá. Materiales y métodos. Estudio descriptivo de tipo exploratorio. Se hizo una descripción de las características neuropsicológicas de las personas con VIH/SIDA. Los resultados de la evaluación neuropsicológica de los sujetos se analizaron con el programa SPSS. Las variables registradas fueron edad, genero, escolaridad, tiempo de diagnóstico y funciones cognitivas superiores. Se incluyeron en el estudio los sujetos con diagnóstico de VIH/SIDA y con reportes de quejas subjetivas de memoria. No se excluyeron aquellos sujetos con antecedentes o presencia de alteraciones psiquiátricas. Resultados. Se creó una base de datos de 22 sujetos, de los cuales predominaron participantes del sexo masculino (77.3%); edad promedio 53,5 años. Se encontró que las funciones con mayor compromiso, sin importar tiempo de diagnóstico, fueron la atención sostenida, la memoria declarativa y la función ejecutiva (control inhibitorio). Las funciones más preservadas fueron las visoespaciales. Conclusiones. Es fundamental que los sujetos con diagnóstico de VIH/SIDA, sean valorados desde un inicio por neuropsicología para incluirlos en un protocolo de prevención y rehabilitación cognitiva específico para dicha población. Se recomienda que el protocolo sea diseñado por un equipo multidisciplinar de diferentes profesionales de la salud.

16/6-idiotype expressing antibodies induce brain inflammation and cognitive impairment in mice: the mosaic of central nervous system involvement in lupus

Background: The 16/6-idiotype (16/6-Id) of the human anti-DNA antibody was found to induce experimental lupus in naive mice, manifested by production of autoantibodies, leukopenia and elevated inflammatory markers, as well as kidney and brain involvement. We assessed behavior and brain pathology of naive mice injected intracerebra-ventricularly (ICV) with the 16/6-Id antibody. Methods: C3H female mice were injected ICV to the right hemisphere with the human 16/6-Id antibody or commercial human IgG antibodies (control). The mice were tested for depression by the forced swimming test (FST), locomotor and explorative activity by the staircase test, and cognitive functions were examined by the novel object recognition and Y-maze tests. Brain slices were stained for inflammatory processes. Results: 16/6-Id injected mice were cognitively impaired as shown by significant differences in the preference for a new object in the novel object recognition test compared to controls (P = 0.012). Similarly, the preference for spatial novelty in the Y-maze test was significantly higher in the control group compared to the 16/6-Id-injected mice (42% vs. 9%, respectively, P = 0.065). Depression-like behavior and locomotor activity were not significantly different between the16/6-Id-injected and the control mice. Immunohistochemistry analysis revealed an increase in astrocytes and microglial activation in the hippocampus and amygdala, in the 16/6-Id injected group compared to the control. Conclusions: Passive transfer of 16/6-Id antibodies directly into mice brain resulted in cognitive impairments and histological evidence for brain inflammation. These findings shed additional light on the diverse mosaic pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric lupus.

Brief neuropsychological assessment of adults post-stroke in the left hemisphere

The neuropsychological assessment investigates cognitive deficits to improve the diagnosis, the prognosis and the rehabilitation of patients. In Brazil, stroke is a major cause of hospitalization and the leading cause of mortality and disability. The stroke in the left hemisphere (LH) is associated with different degrees of loss of language and other cognitive impairments, for example, in the memory. We compared the performance in brief neuropsychological tasks of the left hemisphere poststroke patients, without moderate or severe aphasia, with healthy controls. A list of 135 patients was selected based on inclusion criteria. The study included 15 patients with left stroke, paired by sex, age and education to 30 neurologically healthy adults. The data resulting from application of the Neupsilin Brief Neuropsychological Assessment Instrument were analyzed with the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U. Adults with LH stroke showed a significant reduction in performance when compared to healthy controls on language, working memory and ideomotor praxis, results also found in other studies of patients with left hemisphere stroke

Effects of pulmonary rehabilitation program in a patient with severe asthma diagnosis

Objective: to present the effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation programs in the treatmentof a patient with asthma, this is the case of a young Caucasian girl —17 years old— with severe asthma diagnosis, with symptoms since she was eight years old, 10th grade student. Method: She was referred to the program of Pulmonary Rehabilitation after three hospitalizations during the last year due to asthmatic crises, dyspnoea in activities of daily living, and intolerance to physical exercise. In the initial evaluation, a patient with non-controlled asthma was found; she was receiving short-acting medication admitting that she was not complying with regular use and with a prescribed dose of the pharmacological treatment and that she ignored the importance of this commitment for optimal evolution. The patient expressed concern about the progressive deterioration at her respiratory and functional level during the last year and her fear and anxiety for not being able to breathe during activities befitting her age. Results: One month after receiving bronchodilators and long-acting steroids permanently and complying with recommendations about regular use and adequate inhalatory technique, the patient was included in a three-times a-week program of pulmonary rehabilitation during eight weeks for upper and lower extremity endurance and resistance training. Conclusion: This intervention showed significant changes in the patient at functional level and a greater social participation.

SIDUR: development of an information system, using controlled vocabulary designed to the characterization and sample of population with and without disability, attended by Rehabilitation programs, University of Rosario

Introduction: the statistical record used in the Field Academic Programs (PAC for it’s initials in Spanish) of Rehabilitation denotes generalities in the data conceptualization, which complicates the reliable guidance in making decisions and provides a low support for research in rehabilitation and disability. In response, the Research Group in Rehabilitation and Social Integration of Persons with Disabilities has worked on the creation of a registry to characterize the population seen by Rehabilitation PAC. This registry includes the use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) of the WHO. Methodology: the proposed methodology includes two phases: the first one is a descriptive study and the second one involves performing methodology Methontology, which integrates the identification and development of ontology knowledge. This article contextualizes the progress made in the second phase. Results: the development of the registry in 2008, as an information system, included documentary review and the analysis of possible use scenarios to help guide the design and development of the SIDUR system. The system uses the ICF given that it is a terminology standardization that allows the reduction of ambiguity and that makes easier the transformation of health facts into data translatable to information systems. The record raises three categories and a total of 129 variables Conclusions: SIDUR facilitates accessibility to accurate and updated information, useful for decision making and research.

Identification of the Learning Styles in the Students of Exercise Physiology in the Rehabilitation and Human Development Faculty

The object of this study is to identify the learning styles (LS) used by the students of the subject of physiology of the exercise of the program of Physiotherapy, with the purpose of establishing a direct relationship later on between the learning styles and the possible pedagogic strategies that but they favor the compression of the physiology of the exercise 48 subject of second and third year of career they were interviewed through the instrument standardized compound number (CHAEA). This study carried out an analysis descriptive and of typical deviation of the data. They were differences statistically significant in the styles of active and reflexive learning, in front of the Theoretical and pragmatic styles what puts in evidence the necessity to generate pedagogic strategies inside the subject that this chord with the tendency of the active and reflexive learning of the students.