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Dual Hoffman bounds for the stability and chromatic numbers based on semidefini...

Is it possible to identify individuals with mild cognitive impairment and Alzhe...

CONTEXTO: A diferenciação de pacientes com diagnósticos de demência e de comprometimento cognitivo leve (CCL) pode exigir avaliação neuropsicológica. MÉTODOS: Cento e trinta e um pacientes idosos consecutivos referidos para avaliação (37 controles-clínicos, 41 com CCL amnéstico e 53 com DA possível/provável) foram diagnosticados com bateria neuropsicológica completa, RM e dados clínicos. Todos os resultados for...

Festas, guerras e trocas entre os Aparai e Wayana meridionais

This article deals with some issues addressed by Pierre Clastres about the specific character of the exchange of goods in primitive society and its linkage to the war. It begins with a general discussion about the relevance of the author’s ideas on the ‘against-economic’ sense of these exchanges, considering the widespread but little studied phenomenon of the exchanges of goods in indigenous Amazonia. It highli...

Validação semântica da versão em língua portuguesa do Questionário de Qualidade...

BACKGROUND: Attention-deficit disorder/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults is associated to worse measures of quality of life, both in clinical and epidemiological samples and their evaluation is important when understanding the burden of the disorder in different areas of patients' lives. There is not any instrument in the Portuguese language to assess quality of life in adults with ADHD. OBJECTIVES: To de...

Normative study of the Token Test (short version): preliminary data for a sampl...

INTRODUCTION: The preservation of oral comprehension in the elderly is correlated with the preservation of their cognitive functions. Oral comprehension is a key feature for communication and its evaluation allows for the identification of more specific cognitive deficits, in addition to facilitating the development of more effective, early intervention strategies. OBJECTIVE: Provide contemporary standards for ...

Developmental and acquired dysexecutive syndromes in clinical practice: three c...

Dysexecutive syndromes are often observed in several neuropsychiatric conditions, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), traumatic brain injuries (TBI) or schizophrenia, and usually associate with significant impairments, including familial, academic and professional areas. The present paper aims at presenting three cases of executive functions (EFs) deficits where despite having normal IQ, al...

Neuropsychological profile of adults with attention deficits: differences betwe...

BACKGROUND: Discriminating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from non-ADHD individuals referred to evaluate attention deficits is a challenge that is often faced by clinicians, which might be aggravated by the design of the majority of studies that compare ADHD to normal control comparison individuals, instead of comparing to control clinical individuals. OBJECTIVE: To compare neuropsychological p...

Agreement rates between parents' and teachers' reports on ADHD symptomatology: ...

BACKGROUND: ADHD diagnosis in children and adolescents according to DSM-IV criteria demands symptoms to be present in at least two different settings (mainly school and home). Despite the importance in obtaining parents' and teachers' reports, this issue is seldom investigated in Brazil. OBJECTIVE: We set to evaluate agreement rates between parents' and teachers' reports from a Brazilian clinical sample of chil...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: diagnostic contribution of a computer...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate if performances in a visual attention test could discriminate between children and adolescents with ADHD and normal subjects. METHODS: 102 children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD according to DSM-IV were submitted to the Test of Visual Attention (TAVIS-III) and had their performance compared to 678 normal paired subjects who comprised a control comparison group. All of the subject...