Three verbal fluency tasks: Normative data and convergent validity in Argentines over 50 years.

Unlabelled: Verbal fluency tasks are frequently used in neuropsychological assessment, standing out for their easy application and good sensitivity to early cognitive impairment. However, in Argentina, the availability of updated norms is limited, especially for the action fluency variant. There is also little evidence of validity.

Tracking the impact of multiple sclerosis on employment status: the development of a questionnaire.

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) has a negative effect on employment status.

Objective: To present the preliminary results of a special questionnaire designed to collect employment information on patients with MS.

Methods: The questionnaire on the impact of MS on employment status was completed by 63 patients.

[Systematic revision of the neural bases of dissociative amnesia].

Introduction: Dissociative amnesia (DA) is a retrograde amnesia characterized by an alteration in episodic memory.

Aim: Establish the neural bases which underlie the development of dissociative amnesia.

Methods: Systematic and evaluative bibliographic review of qualitative type.

Reproductive aging and executive functions in healthy women.

The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of reproductive aging on executive functions. We assessed executive functions in three groups of healthy women in the premenopausal (n = 45, mean age = 30.89, SD = 10.

[Emotional valence effect on prospective memory in relapsing remitting Multiple Sclerosis].

Introduction: prospective memory is the ability to remember to perform actions in the future. Currently there is no consensus about the relationship between prospective memory and emotional processing.

Objective: The aim of this work is to determine the influence of the emotional valence of prospective memory signals on prospective recall in patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

[Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE): Normative data for the Rosario Metropolitan Area, Argentina].

Introduction: It is estimated that population aging will continue to rise over the next few years, increasing cases of cognitive impairment. This requires having short, reliable and low-cost tests aimed at the early detection of cognitive disorders. The Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) is a widely used test that allows an initial screening of cognitive disorders.

Transethnic meta-analysis of rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 supports their general contribution to Alzheimer's disease.

Rare coding variants in TREM2, PLCG2, and ABI3 were recently associated with the susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Caucasians. Frequencies and AD-associated effects of variants differ across ethnicities. To start filling the gap on AD genetics in South America and assess the impact of these variants across ethnicity, we studied these variants in Argentinian population in association with ancestry.

[Objective and subjective prospective memory in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis].

Introduction: prospective memory is the ability to remember actions in the future or remember delayed intentions.

Objective: to study the relationship between prospective memory complaints with an objective measure of prospective memory and affective-emotional variables such as depression and anxiety.

Subjects And Materials: 51 patients with multiple sclerosis relapsing-remitting and 46 participants in the control group were evaluated with a prospective memory task called El Condor, a questionnaire on subjective complaints of prospective memory, a depression inventory and an anxiety inventory.

[Impact of facial emotional recognition alterations in Dementia of the Alzheimer type].

Face recognition of basic emotions is independent of other deficits in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Among these deficits, there is disagreement about what emotions are more difficult to recognize. Our aim was to study the presence of alterations in the process of facial recognition of basic emotions, and to investigate if there were differences in the recognition of each type of emotion in Alzheimer's disease.

[Mental simulation in frontotemporal dementia].

Unlabelled: There is a common network for perception and execution of actions necessary for the acquisition of Theory of Mind, and the mirror neuron system could be the neural substrate.

Objective: To study the presence of apraxia and their relationship to Theory of Mind in patients with behavioral variant of Frontotemporal Dementia.

Methods: 24 patients were assessed, and the cognitive praxis assessment battery and theory of mind were administered.

[Factors associated to the work situation of patients with multiple sclerosis].

Introduction: Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating neurological disease that usually gives rise to motor, perceptive, affective and cognitive disorders in patients. These symptoms can lead the person to lose his or her job and lower the quality of life of both patients and their relatives.

Aim: To review the literature on demographic, clinical, cognitive, psychiatric, occupational and social variables associated with the work situation.

Research with spanish-speaking populations in the United States: lost in the translation. A commentary and a plea.

Verbal material used to assess the cognitive abilities of Spanish-speakers in the the United States is frequently of linguistically unacceptable quality. The use of these materials in research settings is thought to pose a serious threat to test validity and hence to the validity of claimed results or conclusions. The authors explain how and why incorrect language finds its way into cognitive tests used in research and other settings and suggest solutions to this serious problem.