Publications by authors named "C Caprile"
Article Synopsis
- Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a rare metabolic disease that leads to neurological symptoms and slow performance in tasks requiring motor coordination, which is linked to phenylalanine (Phe) levels.
- A study compared the visuomotor task performance of early-treated PKU patients aged 11 to 25 with healthy controls, measuring response speed and practice effects related to movement.
- Results showed PKU patients had slower responses and did not benefit from practice, with correlations indicating that higher Phe levels and performance on executive function tasks may contribute to diminished motor control and learning capabilities.
The nonverbal learning disability (NLD) is a neurological dysfunction that affects cognitive functions predominantly related to the right hemisphere such as spatial and abstract reasoning. Previous evidence in healthy adults suggests that acoustic pitch (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMixing apples with oranges: Visual attention deficits in schizophrenia.
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry
September 2015
Article Synopsis
- - The study explored cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia, focusing on their ability to filter out irrelevant visual information and its relation to positive and negative symptoms.
- - Two experiments assessed how well participants classified visual stimuli by ignoring specific dimensions; results showed that individuals with schizophrenia had slower reactions when faced with irrelevant variations compared to healthy controls.
- - The findings indicate that attention deficits in filtering visual information in schizophrenia may be linked to positive symptoms, although the study's small sample size poses a limitation.
Introduction: Visual episodic memory is affected in the early phases of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Aims: To design a visual memory test free of any verbal content, to offer its normative values in the elderly population in Spain, to validate the test in a group of patients with mild AD and to determine its capacity to discriminate between subjects with AD and controls.
Subjects And Methods: The study involved a sample of 263 subjects (137 controls and 126 patients with AD) over 50 years of age.
Introduction: The term cognitive reserve describes the capacity of the adult brain to minimise the clinical manifestation of a neurodegenerative process. The acquisition of cognitive reserve has been linked to the performance of certain intellectual and cognitive activities throughout the whole of the individual's life.
Aims: To create a new cognitive reserve questionnaire (CRQ), to establish its relation with the cognitive functions and to obtain the standard values in the cognitively healthy elderly Spanish population.