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The Digital Transition of Healthcare: A Pilot Experience
Amorim, Liliana; Moaris, Joana; Costa, Rui; Castanho, Teresa; Neves, Carolina; Sousa, Maria João; Sousa, Rita; Martins, Filipa; Domingues, RuiThe healthcare context is undergoing a significant transformation, facing a series of complex and unprecedented challenges. This transformation is triggered by accessibility constraints to healthcare services, increased expectations from patients and sing financial burdens. Rather than being seen as unsolvable obstacles, these challenges can be perceived as powerful stimuli, encouraging the search for innovativ...
Coffee consumption decreases the connectivity of the posterior Default Mode Net...
Picó-Pérez, Maria; Magalhães, Ricardo; Esteves, Madalena; Vieira, Rita; Castanho, Teresa C.; Amorim, Liliana; Sousa, Mafalda; Coelho, AnaHabitual coffee consumers justify their life choices by arguing that they become more alert and increase motor and cognitive performance and efficiency; however, these subjective impressions still do not have a neurobiological correlation. Using functional connectivity approaches to study resting-state fMRI data in a group of habitual coffee drinkers, we herein show that coffee consumption decreased connectivit...
Iron status is associated with mood, cognition, and functional ability in older...
Portugal-Nunes, Carlos; Castanho, Teresa Costa; Amorim, Liliana; Moreira, Pedro Silva; Mariz, José; Marques, Fernanda; Sousa, NunoSeveral conditions are risk factors for iron deficiency (ID), some of which are highly prevalent in older individuals. Despite the amount of evidence pointing for a role of ID in cognition, mood and physical functional ability, the research addressing these associations in older individuals is still scarce. In the present study, 162 older community-dwelling individuals (29.53% classified as ID) were enrolled in...
Poor sleep quality associates with decreased functional and structural brain co...
Amorim, Liliana; Magalhães, Ricardo; Coelho, Ana; Moreira, Pedro Silva; Portugal-Nunes, Carlos; Castanho, Teresa Costa; Marques, Paulo; Sousa, NunoSleep is a ubiquitous phenomenon, essential to the organism homeostasis. Notwithstanding, there has been an increasing concern with its disruption, not only within the context of pathological conditions, such as neurologic and psychiatric diseases, but also in health. In fact, sleep complaints are becoming particularly common, especially in middle-aged and older adults, which may suggest an underlying susceptib...
Exploring the factor structure of neurocognitive measures in older individuals
Santos, Nadine Correia; Costa, Patrício Soares; Amorim, Liliana; Moreira, Pedro Miguel Silva; Cunha, Pedro Guimarães; Cotter, Jorge; Sousa, NunoHere we focus on factor analysis from a best practices point of view, by investigating the factor structure of neuropsychological tests and using the results obtained to illustrate on choosing a reasonable solution. The sample (n=1051 individuals) was randomly divided into two groups: one for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and principal component analysis (PCA), to investigate the number of factors underlyin...
Clinical, physical and lifestyle variables and relationship with cognition and ...
Santos, Nadine Correia; Costa, Patrício Soares; Cunha, Pedro Miguel Guimarães Marques da; Nunes, Carlos Portugal; Amorim, Liliana; Cotter, JorgeIt is relevant to unravel the factors that may mediate the cognitive decline observed during aging. Previous reports indicate that education has a positive influence on cognitive performance, while age, female gender and, especially, depressed mood were associated with poorer performances across multiple cognitive dimensions (memory and general executive function). Herein, the present study aimed to characteriz...
Trabalhar e estudar sob a lente dos processos e estratégias de auto–regulação d...
Salgado, Ana; Rosário, Pedro; Mourão, Rosa; Rodrigues, Ângela; Silva, Cândida Sofia Torres da; Marques, Carina; Amorim, Liliana; Machado, SandrineA ética de trabalho está no topo da agenda educativa. A literatura, mas também a prática dos docentes, sugerem que a promoção da autonomia e a responsabilização dos alunos é um eixo estruturante no processo de aprendizagem dos alunos independentemente do ciclo de ensino. Neste trabalho, discutimos o conceito de auto-regulação da aprendizagem, a sua relevância na aprendizagem, e também algumas implicações e desa...
Trabalhar e estudar sob a lente dos processos e estratégias de auto–regulação d...
Rosário, Pedro; Mourão, Rosa; Salgado, Ana Isabel Gomes; Rodrigues, Ângela; Silva, Cândida Sofia Torres da; Marques, Carina; Amorim, LilianaA ética de trabalho está no topo da agenda educativa. A literatura, mas também a prática dos docentes, sugerem que a promoção da autonomia e a responsabilização dos alunos é um eixo estruturante no processo de aprendizagem dos alunos independentemente do ciclo de ensino. Neste trabalho, discutimos o conceito de auto-regulação da aprendizagem, a sua relevância na aprendizagem, e também algumas implicações e desa...