Diagnóstico e Investigación en Enfermedades Raras: ¡Avancemos¡

Rare Disease Diagnosis and Research: Let’s Make Progress


2.6kviewsAccording to the World Health Organization (WHO), a rare disease is one that occurs infrequently or rarely,and affectsa very small number of people worldwide. In the EU, diseases with a prevalence offewer than 5 in…

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Habilidades sociales : definición, tipos, ejercicios y ejemplos

How to Improve Your Social Skills: Social Skills Games


11MviewsWhat are social skills? Definition of Social Skills Social skills are a set of behavioral strategies and the abilities to implement those behaviors in order to help solve social situations effectively, that is, in an…

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El Síndrome X frágil contado desde dentro

Fragile X syndrome as told from an insider


4.1kviewsWhat is fragile X syndrome? Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is an inherited genetic conditioncaused by a defect in the FMR1 gene located on the X chromosome; this gene provides instructions for making a protein called…

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6 ejercicios para mejorar la memoria

6 activities to improve memory


251.5kviews“Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us”, Oscar Wilde once wrote. Memory is the storage of information and personal experiences. It gives us the capability to learn and adapt. Thanks to…

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Tratamiento rehabilitador del trastorno del desarrollo de la coordinación (TDC)

Rehabilitation treatment for developmental coordination disorder (DCD)


16.3kviewsFrom childhood onwards, we acquire information about how to perform specific tasks unconsciously and from experience. This information is stored and consolidated in our implicit (or procedural) memory to be retrieved when we face the…

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Calidad de vida en la enfermedad de Alzheimer

Quality of life in Alzheimer’s disease


4kviewsWhen this topic was first proposed to me, I did not hesitate one second in accepting to write about the quality of life in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). You may wonder why it took me only…

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El fenómeno de la confabulación (Vol. II): modelos teóricos

Confabulations (Vol. II): theoretical models


4.3kviewsConfabulations can be defined as false memories due to a retrieval problem, where the patient is unaware that he/she is confabulating and has the belief that the memory is true[1]. In a previous post, the classification,…

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El fenómeno de la confabulación (Vol. I): clasificaciones, neuropatología y mecanismos cognitivos

Confabulations (Vol. I): classification, neuropathology and cognitive mechanisms


9.5kviewsConfabulationis a cognitive phenomenon that can be seen in several acquired neurological conditionsas well asin some psychiatric disorders. Although the term confabulation is currently used to refer to false perceptions of body states or the…

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