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Preliminary test of the potential of contact with dogs to elicit spontaneous im...

Study of behavioural and neural bases of visuo-spatial working memory with an f...

The goal of this study was to propose a new functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm using a language-free adaptation of a 2-back working memory task to avoid cultural and educational bias. We additionally provide an index of the validity of the proposed paradigm and test whether the experimental task discriminates the behavioural performances of healthy participants from those of individuals with ...

Methamphetamine mimics the neurochemical profile of aging in rats and impairs r...

Brain neurochemistry and cognition performance are thought to decline with age. Accumulating data indicate that similar events occur after prolonged methamphetamine (MA) exposure. Using the rat as a model, the present study was designed to uncover common alteration patterns in brain neurochemistry and memory performance between aging and prolonged MA exposure. To this end, animals were treated with a chronic bi...

Virtual City: Neurocognitive rehabilitation of Acquired Brain Injury

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is one of the leading causes of individuals' reduced participation in various contexts of life, compromising autonomous functioning and performance in complex activities. Neurocognitive rehabilitation, carried out by transdisciplinary teams, is part of the intervention after the acute phase, aiming patients' maximum functionality and quality of life. Serious games and virtual reality...

Avaliação da experiência subjectiva em pessoas com lesão cerebral: Adaptação pa...

A avaliação da qualidade de vida das pessoas que sofreram lesão cerebral tem sido um aspecto pouco explorado, como resultado, nomeadamente, da falta de instrumentos adequados, das dificuldades dos próprios sujeitos fazerem a sua auto-avaliação e ainda da inexistência de populações de controlo. O European Brain Injury Questionnaire (EBIQ - Teasdale et al., 1997) foi criado para que, de uma forma simples, o doent...

Realidade virtual na reabilitação: por que sim e por que não? uma revisão siste...

O processo de reabilitação, independentemente da área de saúde a que se refere, continua a ser um desafio para profissionais, pacientes e suas famílias. Na tentativa de superar as limitações das intervenções tradicionais, a tecnologia de Realidade Virtual (RV) tem sido aplicada de forma crescente à reabilitação e começa a fornecer importantes ferramentas que, contudo, geram debate e posicionamentos divergentes....

Comportamentos agressivos de doentes hospitalizados em contexto psiquiátrico

Animal Assisted Activity (dog) in acute psychiatric context

The role of expressed emotion, self-concept, coping, and depression in parasuic...

The objective of this study was to characterize Expressed Emotion in families of individuals with parasuicidal behavior, a non-fatal act in which there is self-harm or deliberate excessive ingestion of a substance and to examine the significant relationships between Expressed Emotion (EE), Coping, Depression, Self-concept, and parasuicidal behaviors. The sample consisted of 67 subjects divided into two groups. ...

Postnatal exposure to cocaine in rats housed in an enriched environment: effect...

This study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of environmental enrichment (EE) in rats exposed to cocaine during the first month of postnatal life by examining several categories of social behaviour (play fighting, social investigation, comfort behaviours and invitation to play). Wistar rats were divided in four groups: pups exposed to cocaine hydrochloride (15 mg/kg body weight/day), sc, in two daily doses...