Neurología de la conducta y neuropsicología
Neurología de la conducta y neuropsicología

Author: Jordi Peña-Casanova

Publisher: Ed. Médica Panamericana

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9788498350357

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Esta obra incluye aportaciones actualizadas de 31 profesionales de distintos ámbitos clínicos, universitarios y de investigación. Dichas aportaciones constituyen un hito en el desarrollo de la neurología de la conducta y la neuropsicología, dos caras del mismo problema: las relaciones entre el cerebro y la conducta, las capacidades cognitivas y las emociones. Esta relación, en el contexto de la clínica, adquiere una extraordinaria relevancia ya que los pacientes cerebrales presentan con gran frecuencia trastornos neuropsicológicos. Afasias, apraxias, amnesias, trastornos ejecutivos, demencias, son trastornos que afectan la vida cotidiana de los pacientes y su calidad de vida. Se introducen nuevos conceptos y enfoques a partir del rápido avance de los conocimientos actuales y se realiza un replanteamiento de muchas afirmaciones presentes en la literatura especializada. Los temas tratados incluyen un amplio abanico, desde las bases biológicas de la conducta, hasta la rehabilitación, pasando por los ámbitos tradicionales como afasias, apraxias, agnosias, alexias, agrafias, trastornos del esquema corporal, acalculias, amusias, amnesias, trastornos ejecutivos y demencias.

The architecture of play, sensory and cognitive stimulation
The architecture of play, sensory and cognitive stimulation

Author: Berta Brusilovsky

Publisher: LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA

Published: 2024-03-14

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 8417528784

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Play is a basic right of children, regardless of their status or diversity, as stated in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (UN, 1959) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF, 1989). As noted in the foreword to this book, guaranteeing this right to play is a duty, as it is an important component of children’s development, stimulating creativity, fostering socialisation, promoting autonomy and encouraging them to improve themselves and take on challenges. In Arquitectura del juego, estímulo sensorial y cognitivo desde la infancia hasta la adolescencia (The Architecture of Play, Sensory and Cognitive Stimulation from Childhood to Adolescence), architect Berta Brusilovsky presents — in terms of accessibility, neuroscience and health — her model of cognitive accessibility and recreation in parks, squares, gardens and urban open areas, offering guidance and inspiration to support an inclusive outdoor playground model, especially for those who need sensory and cognitive stimulation. The aim could not be more important and engaging, to bring together and unite diverse groups in play and recreation: to make these areas attractive and usable for those who want to take part in the activity. Diversity in terms of knowledge, learning and fun would have a real impact on the urban planning, form, layout and size needed to make truly inclusive parks.

Cognitive accesibility, architecture, and the autism spectrum
Cognitive accesibility, architecture, and the autism spectrum

Author: Berta Brusilovsky

Publisher: LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA

Published: 2022-02-07

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 8417528644

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This text deals fundamentally with design and architecture: the route of spatial recognition, which is the least known —or worked on— within the approaches of the autism spectrum given its difficulty in being synthesized in a paradigm or normative set. The objective is to create a framework to approach the design of environments and buildings, in order to facilitate spatial development in everyday life and, especially, in learning situations. The spatial route, which is the project, creates: - A set of spatial coordinates that liberates the user from the anguish of not recognizing, of not understanding the space in which he is developing. And that offer him the possibility of finding the way, directing him to where he needs or wants to go. - Structure of the exterior and interior, with their corresponding activities placed in a comprenssible way through concepts of organization: functional and sensorial sequence of events. And creation of spaces for group and individual tasks, paying special attention to places of transition and recovery between opposite or different activities, both physical and emotional. - The aspects that are developed in terms of recommendations are synthesized in a construct that brings together the aspects of general, functional, formal and sensory organization of plans, elevations and details. Achieving with these “person-space” adjustments a higher quality of personal life and of its affective and learning environment. - Design components that in the case of autism should be considered in order to seek with the project greater facility of understanding, use and space-emotional development of people from childhood to adult life.

Human and Animal Models for Translational Research on Neurodegeneration: Challenges and Opportunities From South America
Human and Animal Models for Translational Research on Neurodegeneration: Challenges and Opportunities From South America

Author: Agustín Ibáñez

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2018-06-21

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 2889454940

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Neurodegenerative diseases are the most frequent cause of dementia, representing a burden for public health systems (especially in middle and middle-high income countries). Although most research on this issue is concentrated in first-world centers, growing efforts in South America are affording important breakthroughs. This emerging agenda poses new challenges for the region but also new opportunities for the field. This book aims to integrate the community of experts across the globe and the region, and to establish new challenges and developments for future investigation. We present research focused on neurodegenerative research in South America. We introduce studies assessing the interplay among genetic, neural, and behavioral dimensions of these diseases, as well as articles on vulnerability factors, comparisons of findings from various countries, and works promoting multicenter and collaborative networking. More generally, our book covers a broad scope of human-research approaches (behavioral assessment, neuroimaging, electromagnetic techniques, brain connectivity, peripheral measures), animal methodologies (genetics, epigenetics, proteomics, metabolomics, other molecular biology tools), species (all human and non-human animals, sporadic, and genetic versions), and article types (original research, review, and opinion papers). Through this wide-ranging proposal, we hope to introduce a fresh approach to the challenges and opportunities of research on neurodegeneration in South America.

A Brain for Speech
A Brain for Speech

Author: Francisco Aboitiz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 1137540605

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This book discusses evolution of the human brain, the origin of speech and language. It covers past and present perspectives on the contentious issue of the acquisition of the language capacity. Divided into two parts, this insightful work covers several characteristics of the human brain including the language-specific network, the size of the human brain, its lateralization of functions and interhemispheric integration, in particular the phonological loop. Aboitiz argues that it is the phonological loop that allowed us to increase our vocal memory capacity and to generate a shared semantic space that gave rise to modern language. The second part examines the neuroanatomy of the monkey brain, vocal learning birds like parrots, emergent evidence of vocal learning capacities in mammals, mirror neurons, and the ecological and social context in which speech evolved in our early ancestors. This book's interdisciplinary topic will appeal to scholars of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, biology and history.

Handbook of Research on Neurocognitive Development of Executive Functions and Implications for Intervention
Handbook of Research on Neurocognitive Development of Executive Functions and Implications for Intervention

Author: Alcantud-Marín, Francisco

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2022-03-18

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 1799890767

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Executive functions develop during the first years of life and determine future learning and personal development. Executive dysfunction is related to various neurodevelopmental disorders, so its study is of great interest for intervention in children with neurotypical development and in those who have suffered a neurodevelopmental disorder. The Handbook of Research on Neurocognitive Development of Executive Functions and Implications for Intervention offers updated research on executive functions and their implication in psychoeducational intervention. It establishes a multidisciplinary context to discuss both intervention experience and research results in different areas of knowledge. Covering topics such as childhood inhibitory processing, mindfulness interventions, and language development, this major reference work is an excellent resource for psychologists, medical professionals, researchers, academicians, educators, and students.