Publications by authors named "Graciela Catalina Alatorre-Cruz"

Background: Dysmenorrhea and premenstrual syndrome (PMS) are common disorders in the Mexican population, but these are usually underdiagnosed and under-treated, impacting women's quality of life. Adequate health habits have been reported as precursors of decreasing dysmenorrhea symptoms. However, few studies assess their impact on PMS.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Throughout infancy, the brain undergoes rapid changes in structure and function that are sensitive to environmental influences, such as diet. Breastfed (BF) infants score higher on cognitive tests throughout infancy and into adolescence than formula fed (FF) infants, and these differences in neurocognitive development are reflected in higher concentrations of white and grey matter as measured by MRI. To further explore the effect diet has on cognitive development, electroencephalography (EEG) is used as a direct measure of neuronal activity and to assess specific frequency bands associated with cognitive processes.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Phenolic compounds have a positive effect on obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases because of their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory capacity. The prevalence of these diseases has increased in the last years in the Mexican population. Therefore, the Mexican diet must be assessed as provider of phenolic compounds.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

This study examines the event- related brain potential (ERP) of 25 Mexican monolingual Spanish-speakers when reading Spanish sentences with single entity anaphora or complex anaphora. Complex anaphora is an expression that refer to propositions, states, facts or events while, a single entity anaphora is an expression that refers back to a concrete object. Here we compare the cognitive cost in processing a single entity anaphora [ ; La renuncia (resignation)] from a complex anaphora [ ; La renuncia fue aceptada (The resignation was accepted)].

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The study investigates how working memory load and gender agreement affect sentence processing in older adults, particularly focusing on those at risk for cognitive decline.
  • Participants included 22 older adults in a Risk group and 22 in a Control group, who were tested on sentence reading and grammatical error detection while their brain activity was monitored.
  • Results showed that the Risk group had poorer performance and different brainwave patterns, indicating challenges in processing information, which may signal ongoing cognitive decline.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF