Publications by authors named "Janaina Mariana de Araujo Miranda Brito-Marques"
Article Synopsis
- Aging is generally linked to cognitive decline, affecting areas like attention, working memory, and processing speed, with specific changes observed in older adults on the Judgment of Line Orientation (JLO) test.
- The study aimed to analyze how factors like age, sex, and education relate to the performance on the JLO test among 280 elderly participants in Northeast Brazil.
- Results showed significant correlations between JLO test scores and age, education level, and cognitive function measurements, suggesting the JLO test is useful for assessing visual-spatial abilities in the elderly population.
Unlabelled: Primary progressive aphasia is a clinical syndrome caused by neurodegeneration of areas and neural networks involved in language, usually in the left hemisphere. The term "crossed aphasia" denotes an acquired language dysfunction caused by a lesion in the ipsilateral hemisphere to the dominant hand.
Objective: To describe a case of crossed aphasia in a 60-year-old left-handed patient with a non-fluent variant of primary progressive aphasia diagnosis (age of onset=52), evidenced by a left asymmetry on brain SPECT scan.
We reported a case of a 61-year-old male patient with anacusis, cerebellar syndrome, myoclonus, and frontal signs. The brain magnetic resonance imaging showed bilateral striated hyperintensity of the fluid-attenuated inversion recovery and restricted diffusion in the diffusion-weighted imaging and hypointense areas corresponding to the apparent diffusion coefficient in the cerebral cortex. The autopsy revealed positive immunohistochemistry for the PrPSc protein.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Coronavirus pandemic began in China in 2019 (COVID-19), causing not only public health problems but also great psychological distress, especially for physicians involved in coping with the virus or those of the risk group in social isolation, and this represents a challenge for the psychological resilience in the world population. Studies showed that health professionals had psychological symptoms such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, stress, among others.
Objectives: To investigate the quality of sleep and the prevalence rate of sleeping disorders among physicians during COVID-19 pandemic, and identify the psychological and social factors associated with the condition.