Neuropsicología de la Enfermedad Oncológica
Neuropsicología de la Enfermedad Oncológica

Author: Charles Ysaacc Da Silva Rodrigues

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-02-27

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13:

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La enfermedad oncológica es una dolencia que genera un deterioro paulatino tanto del funcionamiento general como de la ejecución básica del órgano o sistema afectado; su forma maligna se denomina cáncer y es una de las principales causas de muerte en el mundo. En esta obra se hace un repaso sobre: cómo aparecen las células tumorales, su clasificación, estadios, evaluación, formas terapéuticas y factores de riesgo y protección. Uno de los aspectos más importantes de este libro es que incide en la afectación de los sistemas neurológicos y mecanismos neurocognitivos provocados por tumores encefálicos; por tumores malignos que metastatizan hacia el SNC que son, principalmente, los de pulmón, seno, melanoma gastrointestinales, colorrectales y otros no identificados, mismos que se consideran como los más frecuentes entre la población mundial; y por los efectos neurotóxicos de las terapias utilizadas contra el cáncer. Además, propone procesos de intervención neuropsicológica y psicológica, así como algunos casos que permiten un entendimiento más claro de la afectación neurológica causada por esta enfermedad.

Neuropsicología clínica y cognoscitiva
Neuropsicología clínica y cognoscitiva

Author: Iragorri, Angela María

Publisher: Centro Editorial de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Published: 2014-08-13

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9587750772

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Desde la primera edición de este libro –hace diez años– nuestro conocimiento al respecto de la relación entre el cerebro y la mente humana ha aumentado enormemente. Los avances tecnológicos, sin duda, han perfeccionado nuestro mapa cognitivo de la arquitectura cerebral de un modo vertiginoso. La neuropsicología se ha convertido en un tema de interés para un amplio rango de disciplinas, los numerosos avances en las técnicas de imágenes cerebrales y los modelos cognocitivos diseñados para intentar explicar la complejidad de los procesos psicológicos han llevado a una cada vez mayor comprensión de la naturaleza de las representaciones cognocitivas y comportamentales.

Cognition and Cancer
Cognition and Cancer

Author: Christina A. Meyers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-12-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781107411814

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This book is a unique resource on the influence cancer and cancer treatments have on cognition. The majority of cancer patients on active treatment experience cognitive impairments often referred to as 'chemobrain' or 'chemofog'. In addition, patients with primary or metastatic tumors of the brain often experience direct neurologic symptoms. This book helps health care professionals working with cancer patients who experience cognitive changes and provides practical information to help improve care by reviewing and describing brain-behavior relationships; research-based evidence on cognitive changes that occur with various cancers and cancer treatments; assessment techniques, including neurocognitive assessment and neuroimaging techniques; and intervention strategies for affected patients. In short, it will explain how to identify, assess and treat these conditions.

Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)
Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)

Author: Bruno J. Vellas

Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 3805568037

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This book is the first of a new series which will present the proceedings of the newly established Nestlé Nutrition Workshop Series: Clinical & Performance Programme aimed at adult nutrition. Undernutrition is a common phenomenon in elderly people, and malnutrition reaches significant levels in those being in hospital, nursing homes or home care programs. Consequences of malnutrition often go unrecognised owing to the lack of specific validated instruments to assess nutritional status in frail elderly persons. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) provides a single, rapid assessment of nutritional status in the elderly of different degrees of independence, allowing the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition to be determined and to evaluate the efficacy of nutritional intervention and strategies. Easy, quick and economical to perform, it enables staff to check the nutritional status of elderly people when they enter hospitals or institutions and to monitor changes occurring during their stay. Moreover, the MNA is predictive of the cost of care and length of stay in hospital. This publication will be of immense assistance to heads of geriatric teaching units, teachers in nutrition, clinicians general practitioners and dieticians, enabling them to better detect, recognise and start treatment of malnutrition in the elderly.

Handbook of Bereavement Research and Practice
Handbook of Bereavement Research and Practice

Author: Margaret S. Stroebe

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13:

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"In this state-of-the-art volume, leading international scholars and clinicians provide a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary overview of how rigorous research on bereavement translates into practice. They identify new developments and controversies in the field, relating new theories to concepts from attachment theory and emotion theory. The effects of societal change and of national and international events on personal and public mourning are examined along with other areas of interest to practitioners, such as grief and disaster, posttraumatic growth, and cultural competence in helping diverse clients cope with grief and bereavement. New analyses use longitudinal data sets to trace patterns of adjustment, trajectories of grieving over time, and the use of coping resources. The contributors also explore emerging research on the consequences of losing a loved one, "disenfranchised" grieving, continuing bonds, and other critical areas. Researchers and practitioners will find much to enrich and deepen their work in this thought-provoking volume"--Cover. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery
Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery

Author: Hans O. Luders

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2008-07-11

Total Pages: 1624

ISBN-13: 0203091701

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Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery covers all of the latest advances in the surgical management of epilepsy. The book provides a better understanding of epileptogenic mechanisms in etiologically different types of epilepsy and explains neuronavigation systems. It discusses new neuroimaging techniques, new surgical strategies, and more aggressive surgical approaches in cases with catastrophic epilepsies. The contributors also analyze the improved statistics of surgical outcome in different epilepsy types. This definitive textbook is an invaluable reference for neurologists, neurosurgeons, epilepsy specialists, and those interested in epilepsy and its surgical treatment.

Neurologic Complications of Cancer
Neurologic Complications of Cancer

Author: Lisa M. DeAngelis

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 0195366743

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Patients with cancer can suffer from a bewildering variety of neurologic signs and symptoms. The neurologic symptoms are often more disabling than the primary cancer. Symptoms including confusion, seizures, pain and paralysis may be a result of either metastases to the nervous system or one of several nonmetastatic complications of cancer. The physician who promptly recognizes neurologic symptoms occurring in a patient with cancer and makes an early diagnosis may prevent the symptoms from becoming permanently disabling or sometimes lethal. This monograph, an update of the first edition published in 1995, is divided into 3 sections. The first classifies the wide variety of disorders that can cause neurologic symptoms the patient with cancer, discusses the pathophysiology of nervous system metastases, the pathophysiology and treatment of brain edema and the approach to supportive care of common neurologic symptoms such as seizures, pain, and side effects of commonly used supportive care agents. The second section is devoted to nervous system metastases, addressing in turn, brain, spinal cord, meningeal and cranial and peripheral nerve metastases, describing clinical symptoms, approach to diagnosis and current treatment. The third section addresses several nonmetastatic complications of cancer and includes sections on vascular disease, infections, metabolic and nutritional disorders, side chemotherapy, radiation and other diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The final chapter addresses paraneoplastic syndromes.The book is intended for practicing oncologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists as well as internists who treated patients with cancer. Our attempt was to write a book that would assist oncologists in understanding neurologic problems and neurologists in understanding oncologic problems. The book is also intended for physicians training to specialize in any of the above areas. It includes a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of patients with neurologic disease who are with known to have cancer or in whom cancer is suspected.