Publications by authors named "B Prieto-Corona"

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  • About 20% of pediatric epilepsy patients resist multiple anti-crisis drugs, adversely affecting their neuropsychological state, quality of life, and prognosis.
  • A study evaluated the neuropsychological profiles of 19 children with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, noting gender distribution, brain focus areas, and significant cognitive and adaptive difficulties.
  • Findings revealed greater deficits in planning among patients with frontal focus and higher anxiety symptoms in those with temporal focus, along with a correlation between disease duration and impairment in IQ and adaptive skills.
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Objective: Assess the Health-Related Quality of Life in children and adolescents with non-syndromic craniosynostosis and compare it with participants without craniosynostosis.

Design: Non-experimental, cross-sectional design.

Setting: The assessment was done remotely and the instrument was sent via chat or email.

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Specific learning disorder (SLD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects 5-15% of school-aged children worldwide. Often, difficulties in reading (SLD-RD) and mathematics (SLD-MD) occur together. Deficits in phonological awareness (PA) have been identified as the common factor between the two difficulties.

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A variety of cognitive, behavioural, and emotional impairments have been reported in the literature that are associated with the resection of the temporal cortex. Klüver-Bucy syndrome is one infrequently reported disorder in the paediatric population. This paper describes the neuropsychological findings of a female paediatric patient at 7 and 10 years of age with a diagnosis of partial Klüver-Bucy syndrome (pKBS) following total resection of the amygdala and right hippocampus to resect a glioma.

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Introduction: The use of teleneuropsychology (TeleNP) increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, there have been no studies of the benefits and difficulties with this modality in middle-income countries. This study aimed to assess the current use of TeleNP in Mexico.

Method: Mexican neuropsychologists were invited to participate in an online survey regarding the use of TeleNP during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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