Publications by authors named "Daniela Liera"
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- A study aimed to create a new survey for bereaved care partners to gather insights on their experiences with ALS supportive care throughout the illness, rather than just in the final days of life.
- The survey was developed through collaboration between ALS and palliative care experts and included questions on various aspects of care, including symptom management and emotional support.
- Initial testing with 18 care partners showed that the survey was effective in collecting valuable feedback for improving ALS supportive care, with plans for wider testing in other centers to enhance quality further.
Language and theory of mind (ToM) are the cognitive capacities that allow for the successful interpretation and expression of meaning. While functional MRI investigations are able to consistently localize language and ToM to specific cortical regions, diffusion MRI investigations point to an inconsistent and sometimes overlapping set of white matter tracts associated with these two cognitive domains. To further examine the white matter tracts that may underlie these domains, we use a two-tensor tractography method to investigate the white matter microstructure of 809 participants from the Human Connectome Project.
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