Dyslexia: meaning, symptoms, types and dyslexic activities
Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder characterized by an impaired ability to recognize words, slow and hesitant reading, and poor reading comprehension.
Rehabilitation of selective attention
Attention is a complex cognitive function that has been researched from several scientific fields—from neuropsychology to cognitive neurosciencevia psychometrics and even electrophysiology. This has resulted in the development of multiple models that attempt to explain this ability from different perspectives. Cognitive neuroscience, for example, attempts to identify those areas of the brain most involved in attentional processes such as the prefrontal cortex and sensory cortex, and subcortical structures such as the optic thalamus, the corpus striatum (the caudatenucleus and the lentiform nucleus), the septal nuclei, the nucleus basalis of Meynert, and the cerebellum.1
7 Exercises for the rehabilitation of visuospatial skills
Do you know what visuospatial skills are, why are they important, or how can they be improved? Today, we explain this cognitive function and introduce 7 exercises for the rehabilitation of visuospatial skills in adults and children. What are visuospatial skills? Visuospatial skill is the ability to represent, analyze, and mentally manipulate objects. There are two important …
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs): Definition, classification and exercises for kids and adults
Do you know what activities of daily living are? Do you know the difference between basic and instrumental activities of daily living? Do you know how to improve ADLs? In today’s post, we explain what activities of daily living are, their classification, and also recommend several exercises for improving them.
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?
