Factors associated with healthy aging in Latin American populations

H Santamaria-Garcia, A Sainz-Ballesteros… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Latin American populations may present patterns of sociodemographic, ethnic and cultural
diversity that can defy current universal models of healthy aging. The potential combination …

A synergetic turn in cognitive neuroscience of brain diseases

A Ibanez, ML Kringelbach, G Deco - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Despite significant improvements in our understanding of brain diseases, many barriers
remain. Cognitive neuroscience faces four major challenges: complex structure–function …

Temporal irreversibility of large-scale brain dynamics in Alzheimer's disease

J Cruzat, R Herzog, P Prado, Y Sanz-Perl… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Healthy brain dynamics can be understood as the emergence of a complex system far from
thermodynamic equilibrium. Brain dynamics are temporally irreversible and thus establish a …

The BrainLat project, a multimodal neuroimaging dataset of neurodegeneration from underrepresented backgrounds

P Prado, V Medel, R Gonzalez-Gomez… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat) has released a unique
multimodal neuroimaging dataset of 780 participants from Latin American. The dataset …

Model-based whole-brain perturbational landscape of neurodegenerative diseases

YS Perl, S Fittipaldi, CG Campo, S Moguilner, J Cruzat… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
The treatment of neurodegenerative diseases is hindered by lack of interventions capable of
steering multimodal whole-brain dynamics towards patterns indicative of preserved brain …

Healthy aging meta-analyses and scoping review of risk factors across Latin America reveal large heterogeneity and weak predictive models

A Ibanez, M Maito, F Botero-Rodríguez, S Fittipaldi… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Models of healthy aging are typically based on the United States and Europe and
may not apply to diverse and heterogeneous populations. In this study, our objectives were …

[HTML][HTML] Source space connectomics of neurodegeneration: one-metric approach does not fit all

P Prado, S Moguilner, JA Mejía… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Brain functional connectivity in dementia has been assessed with dissimilar EEG
connectivity metrics and estimation procedures, thereby increasing results' heterogeneity. In …

Heterogeneous factors influence social cognition across diverse settings in brain health and age-related diseases

S Fittipaldi, A Legaz, M Maito, H Hernandez… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
Aging diminishes social cognition, and changes in this capacity can indicate brain diseases.
However, the relative contribution of age, diagnosis and brain reserve to social cognition …

Gender differential item functioning analysis in measuring computational thinking disposition among secondary school students

S Sovey, K Osman, MEEM Matore - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Computational thinking refers to the cognitive processes underpinning the application of
computer science concepts and methodologies to the methodical approach and creation of …

Understanding the lived experiences of family caregivers of individuals with dementia in Soweto, a South African Township

A Mahomed, C Pretorius - Dementia, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study was undertaken to understand South African family caregivers' lived experiences
of individuals living with dementia in a predominantly Black African township. A …