Publications by authors named "Almudena Gonzalez"
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- The study analyzes the cost-benefit of Spain's National Immunization Program (NIP) and an expanded version, focusing on the long-term benefits of vaccinating newborns over their lifetime.
- Using Excel for the analysis, the researchers estimated costs of €168.5 million for the 2020 NIP and €275.5 million for the expanded NIP, with potential economic benefits of €772.2 million and €803.0 million, respectively.
- The benefit-cost ratios were found to be €4.58 for the 2020 NIP and €2.91 for the expanded NIP, indicating that vaccination programs are an effective public health strategy that provides significant societal economic returns.
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- The study investigates how atonal music impacts the brain's EEG connectivity compared to tonal music by analyzing EEG data from musicians and non-musicians while listening to different sound types.
- The researchers utilized a phase synchronization index and assessed the networks' topological structures using graph theory to compare functional connectivity (FC) across various frequency bands.
- Findings indicated that tonal music leads to a network resembling a small-world structure, whereas atonal music and pink noise disrupt this efficiency, with differences observed between musicians and non-musicians.
The emergence of different styles of Contemporary concert music in the 20th century led to a marked modification of the foundations built on previous styles. This work investigates whether these modifications, which include procedures and technical resources different to those used in the interpretation of previous musical styles, require different encephalic controls to those used in tonal music and if the experience of the musician in these styles influences them. Functional magnetic resonance images of encephalic regions from 13 professional cellists while interpreting Baroque and Contemporary excerpts inside an MRI scanner were acquired.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess ADHD from global measures of EEG functional connectivity and their temporal variability in different resting states.
Methods: EEGs from sixteen cortical regions were recorded at rest during eyes-closed (EC) and eyes-open (EO) in 10 male combined-type ADHD subjects and 12 healthy male controls. The mean global connectivity (CM) of each region and its temporal variability (CV) were estimated from a number of EEG segments recorded in both states.
Electroencephalography signatures of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: clinical utility.
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat
November 2015
The techniques and the most important results on the use of electroencephalography (EEG) to extract different measures are reviewed in this work, which can be clinically useful to study subjects with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). First, we discuss briefly and in simple terms the EEG analysis and processing techniques most used in the context of ADHD. We review techniques that both analyze individual EEG channels (univariate measures) and study the statistical interdependence between different EEG channels (multivariate measures), the so-called functional brain connectivity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study was designed to determine the effects of probiotics in prevention and/or treatment of periodontal diseases.
Materials And Methods: We performed broad searches in the MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane databases and selected articles that satisfied the description of randomized clinical trials comparing the administration of probiotics versus placebo or another intervention to prevent or treat periodontal diseases in adult patients.
Results: Four randomized clinical trials were analyzed in the final review process.