Entradas de] Adolfo Garcia

The inner world of overactive monitoring: neural markers of interoception in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Yoris A, García AM, Traiber L, Santamaría-García H, Martorell M, Alifano F, Kichic R, Moser JS, Cetkovich M, Manes F, Ibáñez A, Sedeño L Psychol Med. 2017 Apr 4:1-14. doi: 10.1017/S0033291717000368 Los pacientes con trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo (TOC) tienden a  controlar excesivamente su propio comportamiento. Sin embargo ningún estudio ha explorado si ello ocurre además en […]

A core avenue for transcultural research on dementia: on the cross-linguistic generalization of language-related effects in Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease

Calvo N1, Ibáñez A, Muñoz E, García AM Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2017 Mar 28. doi: 10.1002/gps.4712   Si bien el lenguaje es una fuente crítica de variabilidad intercultural, este tema no ha sido abordado en dos líneas de investigación crecientes sobre la relación entre lenguaje y demencias. Este trabajo busca abrir dicho ámbito indagación, […]

The INCYT is present in Tecnopolis!

We are proud to announce the launch of Cerebreando, an interactive show designed by INCYT researchers to disseminate neuroscientific knowledge to audiences of all ages. Cerebreando is part of the agenda of activities of Technopolis, which began its cycle 2017 with a mega exhibition in Misiones. Do not miss the opening photos!   For more […]

Presidents have emotions, too.

García, AM, Ibáñez, A (2017) In D. Golombek y N. Bär (eds.), Neurociencias para presidentes (pp. 105-123). Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno.   This chapter discloses the main neuroscientific knowledge on human emotions. It offers a classification of various types of emotions, feelings and emotional states and describes the experiments that reveal their brain bases. In addition, multiple […]

The presidents also make decisions

Ibáñez A, García AM, Manes F (2017) In D. Golombek y N. Bär (eds.), Neurociencias para presidentes (pp. 25-45). Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno. ISBN: 978-987-629-721-9.     This chapter offers a gentle but informative approach to the most important neuroscientific discoveries about decision making. It is shown that decisions are crossed by personal history culture, […]

Freeing free will: A neuroscientific perspective

Ibanez A, Hesse E, Manes F, Garcia AM In Mario Bunge (Ed): Doing Science, Publisher: World Scientific, pp.161-176. (2017) DOI: 10.1142/9789813202788_0012.   La noción de libre albedrío (free will, FW) tiene orígenes dualistas y neoplatónicos, al ser considerada una capacidad absoluta tipo “todo o nada”, intrínsecamente dependiente de la consciencia, y asumida en base a […]

Brain structural correlates of executive and social cognition profiles in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and elderly bipolar disorder

Baez S, Pinasco C, Roca M, Ferrari J, Couto B, García-Cordero I, Ibañez A, Cruz F, Reyes P, Matallana D, Manes F, Cetcovich M, Torralva T. Neuropsychologia. 2017 Feb 17. pii: S0028-3932(17)30058-1. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.02.012.   En este estudio mostramos que los pacientes con la variante conductual de la demencia frontotemporal (vcDFT) presentan alteraciones más severas […]