10 Cognitive rehabilitation exercises: practical examples
Cognitive stimulation or cognitive rehabilitation is a set of techniques to improve the functioning of cognitive abilities.
Explaining Alzheimer’s Disease to Children
Every July 26th Grandparents Day is celebrated to pay tribute to the vital role grandparents play in families. At NeuronUP, we would like to take this opportunity to discuss the difficult task of explaining Alzheimer’s disease to children.
NeuronUP organizes the IV Iberoamerican Conference of Neuropsychology
We are very happy to announce that...NeuronUP is organizing the IV Iberoamerican Congress of Neuropsychology together with Neuropsychology Learning to be held on May 27, 28 and 29, 2021!
Gender dysphoria in children and adolescents
Transgender people experience a sense of dissonance between their biological sex at birth and their gender identity.
Attention problems: what are they, types, symptoms and exercises to improve attention
We live in a time in which we are swamped with stimuli that make it difficult for us to maintain attention on a task. It is becoming more common to watch a movie while reading the news on the computer and texting on the phone at the same time. We are now used to perform several tasks simultaneously, but do we really pay enough attention to what we are doing? How can we tell when we are dealing with attention problems? Can attention be trained?
Exercises to improve praxis
Praxis refers to learned motor activity. In other words, praxis is the generation of volitional movement for the performance of a particular action or towards achieving a goal
Activities for the neuropsychological rehabilitation in patients with Broca’s aphasia
Language is the ability enabling humans to communicate with others by means of sounds, signs and symbols used to name the objects in the outside world, their actions, characteristics, and the connections between them.
Activities for improving orientation
For most of us, it can be easy to answer questions like who are you? where are you now? or what day is today? For those with orientation impairments, however, these questions are really complicated.
Anterior cingulate cortex: executive control, emotional control
In today's blog post we talk about anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and, specifically, the executive and emotional control of the ACC
