Argentine scientists collaborate with the peace process in Colombia
They assist the ex-members of the Farc and also investigate how the activity they carried out impacted them.
Gabriela, the cheerful and intelligent Colombian girl who lives without a third of the brain
Gabriela Garcia Gutiérrez is a girl born in Cali with a unique feature that reveals science: was born without the frontal lobes of the brain. Her family wants to treat her in Argentina, where the doctors explained to Infobae her miraculous case
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Science: eight years old, part of the brain is missing and her case challenges doctors
«This child understands language and speech, is capable of symbolic play and imagination, distinguishes fantasy from reality, recognizes emotions, but is tremendously uninhibited,» says Ibáñez, «what Mesulam called ‘the mystery of the frontal lobe’: if one makes an evaluation in controlled contexts, in which contributes the external executive function and order, she responds perfectly, but in a free context she gets out of control «.
Astounds scientists: it lacks 90% of the frontal cortex of the brain, but can walk and talk
It is that reorganization that can explain that GC can «speak without Broca’s area (section of the human brain involved with the production of language) or how she can walk without the motor cortex (it is in the back of the frontal lobe)», said Ibáñez.
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Accurate test to detect Parkinson’s
«These texts came to two groups, one with Parkinson’s diagnosis and the other without cognitive impairment, they had to read them and answer a series of questions, and in the analysis of the results, it was found that the patients of the first group had difficulties in understanding actions, independent of their cognitive condition, but in the second group there were selective deficits in the comprehension of the text that included motor actions, so that language and understanding of actions could be an early marker of the disease »
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Desarrollan un test rápido, preciso y económico para detectar el Parkinson en etapas tempranas
Es un avance de científicos argentinos; se trata de una prueba lingüística basada en la lectura de una historia con alta cantidad de verbos de movimiento; tiene un 84% de aciertos en la clasificación de pacientes sin deterioro cognitivo
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The first Argentine Platform of Cognitive Neurosciences and Behavioral Sciences was launched
The Argentine Platform for Cognitive Neurosciences and Behavior Sciences (PENCO) is going to study the processes behind cognition –speaking, thinking, reasoning, problem solving-, of the effects, behavior and social interactions. The focus is always on the brain or the cognitive basis of the mental processes.
Despite the fact that this topic has been quite popular in the last two decades, the studies of this topic are dispersed. The reason for this is its interdisciplinary character (Cognitive Neuroscience oriented to humans does not manage to fit in traditional themes) and the fact that there are not initiatives that boost the development of multi site studies or multilateral research projects (what reduces the empowerment and maximization of research resources). Besides, so far, there was no entity in charge of providing visibility, supporting multilateral programs or strengthening research in this area.
In order to promote the growth of the initiatives that encourage the collaboration between researchers of the area in projects related to basic, applied and translational science, this Platform provides identity and visibility to the study of this interdisciplinary area. The idea is to enhance the collaborations between work groups, thus generating a larger impact on the society and the scientific community.
Entrevista al Dr Facundo Manes
Entrevista al Dr. Facundo Manes para el Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal realizada por el Dr Alvaro Moya.
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Qué es la terapia de entornos naturales
Podemos pensar que lo sensitivo se ve estimulado en estos entornos por sobre lo construido, el producto del hombre acabado (edificios, automóviles, puentes, etc). De alguna manera, este contacto más próximo con el entorno es una forma de volver a ligarnos a la naturaleza tal como estábamos en un período anterior al actual, donde nos hemos transformado en hombres del ruido y el cemento, tal cual sugiere el doctor Agustín Ibáñez, Director en Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Traslacional (INCYT: Conicet, Favaloro e Ineco).
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Dementias in elderly people in Latin America will quadruple by 2050
Low educational levels and illiteracy are also «serious barriers to the prevention of dementia». Latin America is one of the regions of the world with the greatest genetic vulnerability, with the highest number of families with genetic dementia of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ataxia, and other rare genetic conditions. «Probably, the combination of the different factors makes Latin Americans particularly vulnerable to dementia and explains the continuous increase in their prevalence, which contrasts with a trend towards a reduction in the prevalence of dementia in developed countries,» said Agustín Ibañez to Infobae