The NeuroBel: A Screening Test for Verbal Language Impairment in Spanish-Speaking Elderly People With Cognitive Decline.

Purpose: The NeuroBel is a short test that can detect cognitive decline using language tasks. This study replicated previous research using larger clinical samples from three Spanish-speaking countries.

Method: Eight tasks were used to analyze verbal language functioning using a psycholinguistic approach.

Bayesian estimation of parameters in viral dynamics models with antiviral effect of interferons in a cell culture.

The goal of this work is to estimate the efficacy of interferon therapy in the inhibition of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in a cell culture. For this purpose, three viral dynamics models with the antiviral effect of interferons are presented; the dynamics of cell growth differ among the models, and a variant with Gompertz-type cell dynamics is proposed. A Bayesian statistics approach is used to estimate the cell dynamics parameters, viral dynamics and interferon efficacy.

Specific Language Impairment: Evaluation and detection of differential psycholinguistic markers in phonology and morphosyntax in Spanish-speaking children.

Background: The diagnosis of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is very complex, given the variety of clinical pictures described in this disorder. Knowledge about the linguistic markers of SLI can facilitate its differentiation from the normal profile of language development. These markers can also be used as tools that may improve diagnostic.

Comparing voice-therapy and vocal-hygiene treatments in dysphonia using a limited multidimensional evaluation protocol.

Purpose: This study evaluates the effectiveness of two different programs of voice-treatment on a heterogeneous group of dysphonic speakers and the stability of therapeutic progress for longterm follow-up post-treatment period, using a limited multidimensional protocol of evaluation.

Method: Forty-two participants with voice disorders were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Participants in group 1 received voice-therapy and participants in group 2 received a vocal-hygiene program.

[Pilot study of the validity, reliability and normative data for PRO-NEURO scale in adult-elderly people without cognitive impairments].

Introduction: We present preliminary data on validity, reliability and normative values of a short neuropsychological protocol in Spanish called PRO-NEURO including different cognitive functions: orientation, attention and memory, mental calculation, verbal comprehension, writing, naming, reasoning, verbal fluency, praxias, and gnosias. The purpose is to more suitably balance the time of application and the extension of the cognitive areas to be evaluated.

Material And Methods: Different Spanish versions of classical measurements (used as control) and PRO-NEURO were applied of a sample of 273 (137 men and 136 women) volunteers, cognitive healthy (<>) adult and elderly people over 55.

Voice therapy used to test a basic protocol for multidimensional assessment of dysphonia.

The aim of this study was the elaboration of a basic voice protocol to discover which combination of tests and measures (multidimensional evaluation) provide decisive and essential data for the diagnosis of voice pathology and its prognosis. Voices of 21 patients with dysphonia and 21 subjects in a control group were evaluated and compared. Vocal function was assessed using a multiparametric set of videolaryngostroboscopic, perceptual, acoustic, spectrographic, aerodynamic, and subjective basic measurements (Multidimensional "Teatinos" Protocol).

[Present situation of the otorhinolaryngology departments in the Spanish Hospitals. Heterogeneity in handling voice disorders].

The study of voice disorders present some specific difficulties such as the aetiological variability of this kind of disorders or the heterogeneity and the poor data we have about the effectiveness of certain treatments used. Research has performed different types of questionnaires in this area to obtain data about the treatments used in clinical practice. These studies have shown lack or scarce of evaluation and control methods in the rehabilitation programs that the specialists commonly use.