Publications by authors named "Haney Aguirre-Loaiza"
Article Synopsis
- - The study assessed how the COVID-19 pandemic affected self-perceived mental health in adults from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Chile, surveying over 8,000 individuals in 2021.
- - About 28.75% of the participants reported mental health issues, with higher risks found among unemployed individuals, those with a poor quality of life, and those of higher socioeconomic status.
- - Brazilian respondents who disagreed with their government’s decisions or lacked trust in it were also more likely to report mental health alterations, highlighting the influence of political and social factors on mental health during the pandemic.
Background: Positive symptoms of schizophrenia are associated with significant difficulties in daily functioning, and these difficulties have been associated with impaired executive functions (EEFF). However, specific cognitive and socio-emotional executive deficits have not been fully established.
Objective: The present study has several objectives.
There is growing evidence that physical exercise (PE) may boost cognitive performance. However, criteria regarding PE intensity, duration, and frequency are still being studied. We hypothesize that high PE intensities have effects on inhibitory control.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with psychosis often present significant neurocognitive deficits, with executive function deficits (EEFF) being one of the most relevant cognitive impairments with the greatest impact on the functioning of their daily lives. However, although various findings of executive involvement were reported, it is not entirely clear whether there is a differential pattern of involvement according to the clinical symptoms or the deficits occur in all or only in some subcomponents of EEFF.
Objective: The present study had a double objective: to study the specific deficits in the cool and hot EEFF in a group of psychotic patients with a predominance of negative symptoms; and determine the possible associations between the performance of the patients in the cool an hot EEFF tasks with the negative symptoms, and with the behavioral alterations associated with the dysexecutive syndrome.
Physical exercise (PE) is associated with cognitive changes and brain function. However, it is required to clarify the effect of PE in different intensities, population groups conditions and the EF duration over different cognitive domains. Besides, no studies are known to have evaluated the contextual emotional recognition.
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