Attention deficit disorder is the most commonly diagnosed problem in childhood, and reliable studies show that more than half of people diagnosed in childhood continue to have this problem in adulthood. The presence of ADHD in adolescence and adulthood is associated with enormous functional consequences on the academic and work performance of those who suffer … Continued
Building a bridge between neurosciences and mental health implies overcoming enormous challenges due to the complexity of the studied organ, the brain, and the overwhelming psychological and social universe where it interacts. As Huys et al. (2016) state, dealing with such complexities requires powerful techniques. Computational psychiatry combines multiple levels and types of analysis with … Continued
A priority problem in mental health today is the high comorbidity among pathologies of negative affect, as anxiety disorders and depression are currently called. This complexity is immeasurable for most psychological treatments, designed for exclusive diagnostic categories. Robust evidence confirms the existence of factors and mechanisms at different levels (behavioral, cognitive, neuropsychological and neurophysiological) common … Continued
First International Virtual Symposium on Neurosciences and Wellbeing «Building the Neuroscience of Wellbeing during and after the pandemic». On October 28th, 2020, the First International Virtual Symposium on Neurosciences and Wellbeing of the INECO Foundation will be held from Buenos Aires, Argentina. On this occasion, the theme will be «Building the Neuroscience of Wellbeing during and after … Continued
AUTORES Kogan B, Muñoz E, Ibáñez A & García AM 2019 JOURNAL Brain and Cognition VOLUMEN 138, 105509. 2019 doi ABSTRACT Though well established for languages acquired in infancy, the role of embodied mechanisms remains poorly understood for languages learned in middle childhood and adulthood. To bridge this gap, we examined 34 experiments that assessed … Continued
AUTORES Musa G, Slachevsky A, Muñoz-Neira C, Méndez C, Villagra R, González-Billault C, Ibáñez A, Hornberger M, Lillo P. 2019 JOURNAL J Alzheimers Dis. VOLUMEN 2019 Dec 26. doi: 10.3233/JAD-190924. PubMed PMID: 31884475. ABSTRACT Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the most common neurodegenerative early-onset dementias. Despite the fact that both conditions have a … Continued
AUTORES Martínez-Cuitiño M, Peccin A, Soriano F, Barreyro JP. 2019 JOURNAL Cuadernos de Neuropsicología VOLUMEN 13(2), 2019. doi: 10.7714/CNPS/13.2.203 ABSTRACT Los efectos categoriales observados en pacientes y en controles podrían ser producto de las características estructurales de los seres vivos (SV) y de los objetos inanimados (OI) en función de su mayor o menor semejanza estructural. … Continued
AUTORES Dottori M, Hesse E, Santilli M, Vilas M, Martorell Caro M, Fraiman D, Sedeño L, Ibáñez A & García AM 2020 JOURNAL NeuroImage VOLUMEN 209, 116519. 2020. doi ABSTRACT Insights on the neurocognitive particularities of expert individuals have benefited from language studies on professional simultaneous interpreters (PSIs). Accruing research indicates that behavioral advantages in this … Continued
Belief formation and resistance to change of mind are extremely relevant issues today. In particular, beliefs contrary to evidence can affect the well-being of society, preventing or damaging the application of public policies. We are interested in studying the cognitive mechanisms of resistance to change of mind in people who do not have extreme beliefs … Continued
The social contagion of memory refers to the process by which we store false information from other people or media with which we interact socially. It is known that there are factors that modulate the susceptibility to generate false memories, for example, the level of confidence in the interlocutor or his hierarchy in a conversation. … Continued