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Today, the occupational therapist Ángel Sánchez, after explaining in an earlier post the goals and functions of occupational therapy, addresses the role of occupational therapy in patients with acquired brain injury. Occupational therapyis the use of purposeful activity or interventions designed to achieve functional outcomes which promote health, prevent injury or disability and which develop, improve or …
Can epilepsy cause cognitive decline? From NeuronUP, we would like to talk about the cognitive impairment in people with epilepsy. What is epilepsy? It is a chronic disorder of the central nervous system triggered by excessive neuronal electrical activity in one area of the brain. This neurological disorder is characterized by recurrent seizures that may be convulsive …
The relationship between brain and behavior seems to be the successor of the famous Cartesian mind-body dualism, where the brain is the physical or biological component and behavior the mental or psychological aspect. Despite its ancient origin, the body-mind dichotomy continues to be an unresolved problem nowadays. Both concepts have been kept apart as if …
The Fundación DACER presents Popi&Pepa, an audiovisual animated series aimed at children who are hospitalized as a result ofa brain injury. The series can be viewed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KghtgfcYeg. The audio is in Spanish but you can enable subtitles in English or other languages. The series for kids with brain injury is based on the …
Over the past two decades, motor learning has been defined in many ways. While motor control focuses on understanding the control of movement already acquired, motor learning is comprised of a group of abstract ideas about how movement is acquired and/or modified, while offering a temporal perspective focused on the characteristics of the learning process. …
An estimated 5% to 10% of the population are affected by neurodevelopmental disorders whichtypically onset in childhood, prior to puberty, in the developmental period.
Any changes or alterations in the complex process of brain development can result in individuals with atypical brain development.
In many ways, our memories make us who we are, they are our essence as human beings. But in order for those memories to last, they need the memory to work correctly. The memory is a concept known by all, but something we know very little about in depth. In this article we will try …
Before answering this question, it is useful to put it into context. First, epidemiologists have observed a general increase in cancer survival in recent years, even for tumors with worse prognosis. However, there is a risk of paying the price of receiving a therapeutic intervention. We are talking about chemo brain.
A phobia is an intense fear that appears immediately when faced with a specific object or situation. Most common phobias include fear of certain animals or insects, flying, heights, injections or blood. However, phobic situations and objects can vary greatly. Fear should help protect us; with a phobia though, the fear is maladaptive and can …
