Publications by authors named "Myriam Cruz"
Objective: After completing formal stroke rehabilitation programs, most patients do not achieve full upper limb motor function recovery. Music-supported Therapy (MST) can improve motor functionality post stroke through musical training. We designed a home-based enriched Music-supported Therapy (eMST) program to provide patients with chronic stroke the opportunity of continuing rehabilitation by themselves.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate the ability of pathology modules to promote learning of pathology-related course content in a preclinical medical education curriculum.
Methods: Pathology modules were created for the "Hematology/Oncology" and "Women's Health" (WH) courses. Students were recruited over 2 consecutive academic years; cohorts 1 and 2 refer to 2 separate groups of students in years 1 and 2, respectively, of the study.
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- Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are struggling to fight dementia due to differences in culture, politics, and wealth.
- A group called the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium on Dementia (LAC-CD) wants to bring people together to share ideas and create a plan called Knowledge to Action Framework (KtAF) to help solve these issues.
- They discuss strategies like research and teamwork that can turn local knowledge into real actions to better support people with dementia in these regions.