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Compr Psychiatry ; 133: 152498, 2024 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38788615

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BACKGROUND: The diversity of patients' symptomatology among people seeking treatment on community-based mental health services poses significant challenges to traditional models of care. Recent approaches favor identifying transdiagnostic factors that allow a better understanding of patient heterogeneity and designing more effective and quality interventions. This study examines the heterogeneity of patients with internalizing symptoms based on profiles identified with cognitive and motivational control variables. Differences between these profiles on dimensional measures of psychopathology and quality of life are examined. METHODS: 263 patients were selected by non-probabilistic sampling procedures on mental health services in the province of Huelva (Spain). A latent class analysis on the standardized scale scores of The Behavioral Inhibition/Behavioral Activation System Scales and the Effortful Control Scale of the Adult Temperament Questionnaire Short-Form was conducted. Profiles were compared on the scores of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms-II, the WHO Disability Assessment Schedule II, and the Health Assessment Questionnaire SF-36. RESULTS: The four latent profile solution is the one that showed the best fit indicators and substantive interpretability, with a kappa of 0.94 in the cross-validation procedure with 75% of the sample. No sex differences were found between the profiles (χ32 5.17, p = .160). Profiles #1 and #3, both characterized by an imbalance between low activation and high inhibition, had lower well-being, lower functionality, and quality of life. When comparing profile #2 (featuring the highest inhibitory control) lower scores on most internalizing scales are observed, specially claustrophobia, social anxiety, panic mania. Profile #4 (low control, high activation, and high inhibition) showed greater scores on both mania and euphoria and lower scores on emotional role. CONCLUSIONS: We identified four distinctive profiles that had overly increased behavioral inhibition (as expected in internalizing disorders) and differed in the degree of imbalance between inhibition and activation systems, and between motivational systems and top-down cognitive control. The profile characterized by high activation and reduced cognitive (inhibitory) control was the one showing greater mood-related symptoms and lower levels of quality of life. These profiles could be generated by treatment providers to guide clinical management in an evidence-based manner.


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Motivación , Calidad de Vida , Humanos , Calidad de Vida/psicología , Masculino , Femenino , Adulto , Persona de Mediana Edad , España , Ansiedad/psicología , Ansiedad/diagnóstico , Cognición , Depresión/psicología , Depresión/diagnóstico , Encuestas y Cuestionarios
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Int J Obes (Lond) ; 42(1): 88-94, 2018 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28819323

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The brain reward system is key to understanding adolescent obesity in the current obesogenic environment, rich in highly appetising stimuli, to which adolescents are particularly sensitive. We aimed to examine the association between body fat levels and brain reward system responsivity to general (monetary) rewards in male and female adolescents. METHODS: Sixty-eight adolescents (34 females; mean age (s.d.)= 16.56 (1.35)) were measured for body fat levels with bioelectric impedance, and underwent a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan during the Monetary Incentive Delay (MID) task. The MID task reliably elicits brain activations associated with two fundamental aspects of reward processing: anticipation and feedback. We conducted regression analyses to examine the association between body fat and brain reward system responsivity during reward anticipation and feedback, while controlling for sex, age and socioeconomic status. We also analysed the moderating impact of sex on the relationship between fat levels and brain responsivity measures. Brain imaging analyses were corrected for multiple comparisons, with a cluster-defining threshold of P<0.001, and minimum cluster size of 38 contiguous voxels. RESULTS: Higher body fat levels were associated with lower activation of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) and the supramarginal gyrus during reward feedback after controlling for key sociodemographic variables. Although we did not find significant associations between body fat and brain activations during reward anticipation, S1/supramarginal gyrus activation during feedback was linked to increased negative prediction error, that is, less reward than expected, in illustrative post hoc analyses. Sex did not significantly moderate the association between body fat and brain activation in the MID task. CONCLUSIONS: In adolescents, higher adiposity is linked to hypo-responsivity of somatosensory regions during general (monetary) reward feedback. Findings suggest that adolescents with excess weight have blunted activation in somatosensory regions involved in reward feedback learning.


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Tejido Adiposo/fisiología , Sobrepeso/fisiopatología , Recompensa , Corteza Somatosensorial/fisiología , Adolescente , Índice de Masa Corporal , Estudios Transversales , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Motivación/fisiología , Obesidad/epidemiología , Obesidad/fisiopatología , Sobrepeso/epidemiología
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Int J Obes (Lond) ; 42(3): 448-454, 2018 03.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29064475

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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Unhealthy dietary choices are a major contributor to harmful weight gain and obesity. This study interrogated the brain substrates of unhealthy versus healthy food choices in vivo, and evaluated the influence of hunger state and body mass index (BMI) on brain activation and connectivity. SUBJECTS/METHODS: Thirty adults (BMI: 18-38 kg m-2) performed a food-choice task involving preference-based selection between beverage pairs consisting of high-calorie (unhealthy) or low-calorie (healthy) options, concurrent with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Selected food stimuli were delivered to participants using an MRI-compatible gustometer. fMRI scans were performed both after 10-h fasting and when sated. Brain activation and hypothalamic functional connectivity were assessed when selecting between unhealthy-healthy beverage pairings, relative to unhealthy-unhealthy and healthy-healthy options. Results were considered significant at cluster-based family-wise error corrected P<0.05. RESULTS: Selecting between unhealthy and healthy foods elicited significant activation in the hypothalamus, the medial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices, the anterior insula and the posterior cingulate. Hunger was associated with higher activation within the ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices, as well as lower connectivity between the hypothalamus and both the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and dorsal striatum. Critically, people with higher BMI showed lower activation of the hypothalamus-regardless of hunger state-and higher activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex when hungry. CONCLUSIONS: People who are overweight and obese have weaker activation of brain regions involved in energy regulation and greater activation of reward valuation regions while making choices between unhealthy and healthy foods. These results provide evidence for a shift towards hedonic-based, and away from energy-based, food selection in obesity.


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Índice de Masa Corporal , Encéfalo/fisiología , Preferencias Alimentarias/fisiología , Respuesta de Saciedad/fisiología , Adolescente , Adulto , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Estudios de Cohortes , Dieta Saludable , Ayuno/fisiología , Femenino , Humanos , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Masculino , Obesidad , Adulto Joven
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Psychol Med ; 45(10): 2083-93, 2015 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25640022

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BACKGROUND: Impulsivity is a hallmark characteristic of substance use disorders. Recently, studies have begun to explore whether increased impulsivity in substance-dependent individuals (SDIs) is associated with a greater propensity to relapse following treatment. Despite growing recognition of its multidimensional nature, however, most studies have treated impulsivity unilaterally. Accordingly, it remains unclear whether certain facets of impulsivity are more relevant to relapse than others. The aim of the current study was to examine the relationship between multiple facets of impulsivity and short-term relapse in SDIs. As a secondary aim, we explored the role of treatment retention in this relationship. METHOD: A personality-based impulsivity questionnaire (UPPS) and three neurocognitive tasks of impulsivity [stop-signal task (SST), delay discounting task (DDT) and Iowa gambling task (IGT)] were administered in a heterogeneous sample of 70 SDIs shortly following their entry in an in-patient detoxification programme. Mediation analyses were performed to explore whether the effects of impulsivity on relapse were mediated by treatment retention. RESULTS: Performance on two neurocognitive indices of impulsive choice (i.e. delay discounting and impulsive decision-making) significantly predicted short-term relapse. The effects of delay discounting and impulsive decision-making on relapse propensity were mediated by treatment retention. CONCLUSIONS: Neurocognitive indices of impulsivity may be more sensitive to the prediction of relapse than trait-based self-report questionnaires. Post-treatment relapse in SDIs may be reduced by targeting the processes involved in impulsive choice and by improving treatment retention in SDIs with inflated impulsivity.


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Conducta Impulsiva , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/psicología , Adulto , Análisis de Varianza , Conducta de Elección , Femenino , Juego de Azar/psicología , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Países Bajos , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Recurrencia , Tratamiento Domiciliario , Centros de Tratamiento de Abuso de Sustancias , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/fisiopatología , Adulto Joven
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Psychol Med ; 41(12): 2625-35, 2011 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21733207

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BACKGROUND: Pathological gambling (PG) is a form of behavioural addiction that has been associated with elevated impulsivity and also cognitive distortions in the processing of chance, probability and skill. We sought to assess the relationship between the level of cognitive distortions and state and trait measures of impulsivity in treatment-seeking pathological gamblers. METHOD: Thirty pathological gamblers attending the National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first National Health Service clinic for gambling problems in the UK, were compared with 30 healthy controls in a case-control design. Cognitive distortions were assessed using the Gambling-Related Cognitions Scale (GRCS). Trait impulsivity was assessed using the UPPS-P, which includes scales of urgency, the tendency to be impulsive in positive or negative mood states. Delay discounting rates were taken as a state measure of impulsive choice. RESULTS: Pathological gamblers had elevated impulsivity on several UPPS-P subscales but effect sizes were largest (Cohen's d>1.4) for positive and negative urgency. The pathological gamblers also displayed higher levels of gambling distortions, and elevated preference for immediate rewards, compared to controls. Within the pathological gamblers, there was a strong relationship between the preference for immediate rewards and the level of cognitive distortions (R2=0.41). CONCLUSIONS: Impulsive choice in the gamblers was correlated with the level of gambling distortions, and we hypothesize that an impulsive decision-making style may increase the acceptance of erroneous beliefs during gambling play.


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Trastornos del Conocimiento/psicología , Juego de Azar/psicología , Conducta Impulsiva/psicología , Adulto , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Femenino , Juego de Azar/terapia , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Escalas de Valoración Psiquiátrica , Pruebas Psicológicas , Psicoterapia , Recompensa , Reino Unido , Adulto Joven
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J Psychopharmacol ; 22(5): 498-510, 2008 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18208910

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There is important preclinical evidence of long lasting neurotoxic and selective effects of ecstasy MDMA on serotonin systems in non-human primates. In humans long-term recreational use of ecstasy has been mainly associated with learning and memory impairments. The aim of the present study was to investigate the neuropsychological profile associated with ecstasy use within recreational polydrug users, and describe the cognitive changes related to maintained or variable ecstasy use along a two years period. We administered cognitive measures of attention, executive functions, memory and learning to three groups of participants: 37 current polydrug users with regular consumption of ecstasy and cannabis, 23 current cannabis users and 34 non-users free of illicit drugs. Four cognitive assessments were conducted during two years. At baseline, ecstasy polydrug users showed significantly poorer performance than cannabis users and non-drug using controls in a measure of semantic word fluency. When ecstasy users were classified according to lifetime use of ecstasy, the more severe users (more than 100 tablets) showed additional deficits on episodic memory. After two years ecstasy users showed persistent deficits on verbal fluency, working memory and processing speed. These findings should be interpreted with caution, since the possibility of premorbid group differences cannot be entirely excluded. Our findings support that ecstasy use, or ecstasy/cannabis synergic effects, are responsible for the sub-clinical deficits observed in ecstasy polydrug users, and provides additional evidence for long-term cognitive impairment owing to ecstasy consumption in the context of polydrug use.


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Trastornos del Conocimiento/inducido químicamente , Alucinógenos/efectos adversos , Drogas Ilícitas/efectos adversos , N-Metil-3,4-metilenodioxianfetamina/efectos adversos , Adulto , Sinergismo Farmacológico , Femenino , Estudios de Seguimiento , Humanos , Masculino , Abuso de Marihuana/fisiopatología , Trastornos de la Memoria/inducido químicamente , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/fisiopatología , Adulto Joven
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Rev Neurol ; 44(7): 432-9, 2007.
Artículo en Español | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17420970

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INTRODUCTION: Drug abuse is related to neurocognitive alterations linked to the functioning of several areas of the brain. The application of advanced neuroimaging techniques has allowed important advances to be made in research being conducted on why stable disorders are produced in the brain mechanisms responsible for the cognitive processes and on determining exactly what mechanisms drugs of abuse are involved in. AIM. To discuss the evidence available regarding the existence of alterations in the brains of consumers of the most prevalent drugs of abuse in western societies, that is, cocaine, opiates, ecstasy and cannabis. DEVELOPMENT: We review the main neuroimaging studies that have detected alterations in the brain structure and functioning of drug abusers. Likewise, we also discuss the findings from functional neuroimaging studies that have analysed patterns of brain activation associated to specific cognitive operations, such as memory or the executive functions. CONCLUSIONS: Drug abusers present significant alterations in extensive areas of the cortex (especially in the frontal and temporal cortex), subcortex (amygdala, hippocampus and insular cortex) and basal regions (striatum). These alterations are associated with abnormal patterns of activation during cognitive memory tasks, inhibition and decision-making. Cocaine abusers present more pronounced and generalised alterations in the brain. By combining neuropsychological and neuroimaging findings is has been shown that the motivational, memory and executive control processes can play a key role in rehabilitating drug addicts.


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Analgésicos Opioides/farmacología , Encéfalo , Cannabis/metabolismo , Cocaína/farmacología , Diagnóstico por Imagen , N-Metil-3,4-metilenodioxianfetamina/farmacología , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/patología , Encéfalo/anatomía & histología , Encéfalo/efectos de los fármacos , Encéfalo/patología , Inhibidores de Captación de Dopamina/farmacología , Humanos , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Serotoninérgicos/farmacología , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/diagnóstico
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Curr Neuropharmacol ; 4(1): 17-31, 2006 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18615136

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Similar to patients with orbitofrontal cortex lesions, substance dependent individuals (SDI) show signs of impairments in decision-making, characterised by a tendency to choose the immediate reward at the expense of severe negative future consequences. The somatic-marker hypothesis proposes that decision-making depends in many important ways on neural substrates that regulate homeostasis, emotion and feeling. According to this model, there should be a link between abnormalities in experiencing emotions in SDI, and their severe impairments in decision-making in real-life. Growing evidence from neuroscientific studies suggests that core aspects of substance addiction may be explained in terms of abnormal emotional guidance of decision-making. Behavioural studies have revealed emotional processing and decision-making deficits in SDI. Combined neuropsychological and physiological assessment has demonstrated that the poorer decision-making of SDI is associated with altered reactions to reward and punishing events. Imaging studies have shown that impaired decision-making in addiction is associated with abnormal functioning of a distributed neural network critical for the processing of emotional information, including the ventromedial cortex, the amygdala, the striatum, the anterior cingulate cortex, and the insular/somato-sensory cortices, as well as non-specific neurotransmitter systems that modulate activities of neural processes involved in decision-making. The aim of this paper is to review this growing evidence, and to examine the extent of which these studies support a somatic-marker model of addiction.

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Drug Alcohol Depend ; 162: 72-8, 2016 May 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26971229

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BACKGROUND: Polysubstance use is associated with alterations in different components of executive functioning such as working memory and response inhibition. Nevertheless, less attention has been given to executive planning skills, which are required to benefit of low structured interventions. This study examines the association between severity of use of cocaine, heroin, alcohol, fluid and crystallized intelligence and planning tasks varying on degree of structure. METHODS: Data were collected from 60 polysubstance users and 30 healthy controls. Cognitive assessment consisted of three planning tasks with different structure levels: Stockings of Cambridge, Zoo Map test, and Multiple Errands Test. RESULTS: Polysubstance users had significant planning deficits across the three tasks compared to healthy controls. Hierarchical regression models showed that severity of drug use and fluid and crystallized intelligence significantly explained performance in all the planning tasks. However, these associations were higher for low-structured real world tasks. These low-structured tasks also showed a unique association with crystallized but not fluid intelligence. CONCLUSION: Drug abuse is negatively associated with planning abilities, and intelligence is positively associated with planning performance in real-world tasks.


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Cocaína/efectos adversos , Etanol/efectos adversos , Función Ejecutiva/efectos de los fármacos , Heroína/efectos adversos , Inteligencia , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/psicología , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Trastornos Relacionados con Cocaína/psicología , Humanos , Pruebas Psicológicas
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Eur J Pain ; 19(6): 807-16, 2015 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25380353

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BACKGROUND: Through two studies, we introduce and validate the Empathy for Pain Scale (EPS), which characterizes the phenomenology of empathy for pain, including the vicarious experience of pain when seeing others in pain. METHODS: In study 1, 406 individuals completed the EPS and Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). In the EPS, four painful scenarios (witnessing surgery, patient recovering from surgery, assault and accidental injury) were rated for 12 emotional, empathic and sensory responses. In study 2, 59 participants completed the same questionnaires and then watched and rated videos of sporting injuries. RESULTS: In study 1, we identified three factors of the EPS with principal component analysis, which were validated with confirmatory factor analysis: affective distress; vicarious pain; and empathic concern. The EPS demonstrated good psychometric properties, re-test reliability (n = 105) and concurrent validity. In study 2, we validated the EPS against empathic reactions to the pain of others as displayed in video clips depicting sporting injuries and showed that the scale has unique utility to characterize empathic reactions to pain above general trait empathy measures. Both studies showed that the affective distress and empathic concern subscales of the EPS correlated with measures of cognitive and affective empathy from the IRI, whereas the vicarious pain subscale was only correlated with the personal distress IRI subscale. CONCLUSIONS: The EPS is a psychometrically sound new scale that characterizes empathy for pain and vicarious pain. The EPS offers valuable insight to the phenomenological profile of the affective, empathic and sensory dimensions of empathy for pain.


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Emociones/fisiología , Empatía/fisiología , Dimensión del Dolor , Dolor , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Dimensión del Dolor/métodos , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Adulto Joven
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Rev Neurol ; 35(12): 1116-35, 2002.
Artículo en Español | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12497295

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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: The surgery of epilepsy has become a real alternative for the treatment of patients with drug resistant epilepsy. In this study we review the part played by Clinical Neuropsychology in programmes of surgery for epilepsy, particularly in operations designed to treat drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy. DEVELOPMENT: Firstly we describe the function of the clinical neurologist in relation to these patients. Then we consider the main national and international forms of assessment. Finally we describe the main findings of neuropsychological investigation regarding the approach to temporal lobectomy. Thus we describe the main presurgical characteristics of candidates for surgery regarding cognition and personality. Similarly we describe what is known of the possibilities of finding the site of the epilepetogenic focus and prognosis of the results and neuropsychological consequences of the operation. Finally, we describe the cognitive results, particularly memory, after temporal lobectomy. CONCLUSIONS: Review of the literature shows how important it is for the clinical neuropsychologist to be involved in programmes of the surgery of epilepsy, studying the patients before and after surgery and assessing prognosis. Clinical neuropsychology is also important for predicting the post surgical neuropsychological results.


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Epilepsia del Lóbulo Temporal/psicología , Epilepsia del Lóbulo Temporal/cirugía , Neuropsicología , Amobarbital/uso terapéutico , Anticonvulsivantes/uso terapéutico , Cognición/fisiología , Epilepsia del Lóbulo Temporal/tratamiento farmacológico , Humanos , Hipnóticos y Sedantes/uso terapéutico , Memoria/fisiología , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Personalidad , Complicaciones Posoperatorias , Pronóstico , Resultado del Tratamiento
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Rev Neurol ; 35(8): 720-6, 2002.
Artículo en Español | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12402222

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INTRODUCTION: Temporal lobectomy (TL) is an effective treatment for drug refractory temporal lobe epilepsy. The main neuropsychological consequences of the intervention are changes in episodic and semantic memory. Aim. To study the consequences of right temporal lobectomy (RTL) and left temporal lobectomy (LTL) on episodic and semantic mnemonic functioning. PATIENTS AND METHOD: 27 patients who had undergone TL in the Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves in Granada were submitted to pre and post surgical evaluation by means of a battery of neuropsychological tests that included episodic and semantic memory tests for both verbal and visual material. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: ANOVA analysis was employed to analyse the pre and post surgical changes for the whole group of patients, and Student s t and Wilcoxon s non parametric test were used for each group of RTL and LTL. No deterioration was found in ipsilateral memory after the intervention, that is to say, in the verbal memory of the patients submitted to LTL and in the visual memory of RTL patients. With regard to contralateral memory, that is, the visual memory of patients submitted to LTL and the verbal memory of RTL patients, the ANOVA analyses of the whole group revealed a statistically significant improvement. The analyses performed for the whole group (LTL and RTL), however, did not reveal any statistically significant changes.


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Lobectomía Temporal Anterior , Epilepsia del Lóbulo Temporal/cirugía , Memoria , Lóbulo Temporal/cirugía , Adulto , Lobectomía Temporal Anterior/efectos adversos , Dominancia Cerebral , Escolaridad , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Memoria/fisiología , Trastornos de la Memoria/etiología , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Desempeño Psicomotor , Lóbulo Temporal/fisiopatología , Resultado del Tratamiento , Aprendizaje Verbal
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Psychopharmacology (Berl) ; 230(3): 499-505, 2013 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23820926

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RATIONALE: A substantial literature indicates that in alcohol addiction aspects of impulsive decision-making are typical of individuals with an early onset of addictive behaviour problems. It is not known whether the same applies to opiate addiction, and this insight has important theoretical and clinical implications. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to examine the relationship between age at onset of addictive behaviour problems and decision-making in opiate addiction. METHODS: Ninety-three opiate-dependent, treatment-seeking individuals were divided in three groups, early, late and intermediate onset of problems, and completed impulsivity questionnaires and delay discounting and gambling tasks. RESULTS: Individuals with a late onset of opiate problems (25 years or above) had lower delay discounting rates than individuals with early (18 years or less) or intermediate onset. There were no differences in performance on the gambling tasks. Late-onset individuals were older and had shorter drug histories, but there was no relationship between either age or length of exposure to opiates and delay discounting rates. CONCLUSIONS: In keeping with previous studies in alcohol addiction, these findings support the notion of at least two distinct subgroups of opiate-dependent individuals, characterised by a different onset of problems, different propensity to impulsive behaviour and perhaps distinct mechanisms leading to addiction.


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Toma de Decisiones , Juego de Azar/psicología , Conducta Impulsiva/epidemiología , Trastornos Relacionados con Opioides/fisiopatología , Adulto , Factores de Edad , Edad de Inicio , Conducta Adictiva/epidemiología , Conducta de Elección , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Factores de Tiempo
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NeuroRehabilitation ; 30(1): 43-53, 2012.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22349841

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INTRODUCTION: The Rasch model is increasingly used in the field of rehabilitation because it improves the accuracy of measurements of patient status and their changes after therapy. OBJECTIVE: To determine the long-term effectiveness of a holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation program for Spanish outpatients with acquired brain injury (ABI) using Rasch analysis. METHODS: Eighteen patients (ten with long evolution - patients who started the program > 6 months after ABI- and eight with short evolution) and their relatives attended the program for 6 months. Patients' and relatives' answers to the European Brain Injury Questionnaire and the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale at 3 time points (pre-intervention. post-intervention and 12 month follow-up) were transformed into linear measures called logits. RESULTS: The linear measures revealed significant improvements with large effects at the follow-up assessment on cognitive and executive functioning, social and emotional self-regulation, apathy and mood. At follow-up, the short evolution group achieved greater improvements in mood and cognitive functioning than the long evolution patients. CONCLUSIONS: The program showed long-term effectiveness for most of the variables, and it was more effective for mood and cognitive functioning when patients were treated early. Relatives played a key role in the effectiveness of the rehabilitation program.


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Lesiones Encefálicas/rehabilitación , Lesiones Encefálicas/psicología , Evaluación de la Discapacidad , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , España , Resultado del Tratamiento , Población Blanca
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Drug Alcohol Depend ; 122(1-2): 142-8, 2012 Apr 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22018602

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BACKGROUND: We aimed to explore the association between baseline executive functioning and treatment outcome in Therapeutic Communities (TCs). METHODS: We used a longitudinal descriptive design: a baseline neuropsychological assessment was performed within the first 30 days of treatment in TCs. Once participants finished or abandoned treatment, the information about time of stay in treatment was computed for each individual. The study was conducted across six TCs located in the region of Andalusia (Spain): Cartaya, Almonte, Mijas, Los Palacios, La Línea, and Tarifa. Participants were 131 patients with cocaine dependence who initiated and finished treatment in TCs between January 2009 and December 2010 (2 years). Cognitive assessment was composed of general measures of executive functioning: Letter Number Sequencing (working memory) and Similarities (reasoning), and executive tasks sensitive to ventromedial prefrontal cortex dysfunction, including the Delis-Kaplan Stroop test (inhibition/cognitive switching), the Revised-Strategy Application Test (strategy application/multitasking), and the Iowa Gambling Task (decision-making). The outcome measure was retention, defined as time in TC treatment (number of days). RESULTS: Poor executive functioning significantly predicted shorter treatment retention in cocaine dependent individuals on TC residential treatment (14% of explained variance). Reduced performance on the R-SAT, a multitasking test taxing the ability to develop and apply the best strategy to organize multiple sub-routine tasks in order to achieve a long-term goal, was the most powerful predictor of treatment retention. CONCLUSIONS: Self-regulation deficits predict the capacity to remain in residential treatment among cocaine dependents.


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Trastornos Relacionados con Cocaína/psicología , Función Ejecutiva , Controles Informales de la Sociedad , Adulto , Trastornos Relacionados con Cocaína/terapia , Cognición , Toma de Decisiones , Femenino , Humanos , Estudios Longitudinales , Masculino , Memoria a Corto Plazo , Persona de Mediana Edad , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Centros de Tratamiento de Abuso de Sustancias
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Rev Neurol ; 47(11): 607-12, 2008.
Artículo en Español | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19048542

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INTRODUCTION: The relationship between frontal lobe damage and criminality is especially complex. The neural substrates of psychopathic behavior seem to involve structural and functional abnormalities in the frontal lobes and the limbic system. AIM. To analyze the repercussions that brain structural and functional abnormalities in psychopathic individuals may have for forensic neuropsychology. DEVELOPMENT: Consistent evidence indicate that response inhibition problems in psychopathic subjects are linked to structural or functional damage in the frontal cortex. Furthermore, the prefrontal cortex, along with the amygdala and the hippocampus forms the limbic system, which is an important neural substrate of emotion processing; therefore the psychopath's capacity of affective processing could also be impaired. The theoretical frameworks of the somatic marker and mirror neuron hypotheses, along with the empirical study of executive functions may contribute to explain the inability of the psychopathic subjects to feel empathy, which is one of the main inhibitors of violence and antisocial behavior. CONCLUSIONS: The relationship between frontal lobe dysfunction and antisocial behavior arises an important legal issue. In order to consider some type of minor liability in the case of psychopaths it is suggested to gather further research data about the relationship between frontal lobe dysfunction and the ability to inhibit antisocial behavior by making an adequate use of empathy and emotional ties.


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Trastorno de Personalidad Antisocial , Cognición/fisiología , Emociones/fisiología , Psiquiatría Forense , Lóbulo Frontal , Neuropsicología , Trastorno de Personalidad Antisocial/patología , Trastorno de Personalidad Antisocial/fisiopatología , Lóbulo Frontal/patología , Lóbulo Frontal/fisiopatología , Humanos , Sistema Límbico/patología , Sistema Límbico/fisiopatología , Psicopatología
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Arch Clin Neuropsychol ; 23(4): 447-54, 2008 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18450417

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INTRODUCTION: Patients with acquired brain injury affecting the frontal cortex and individuals with substance use disorders share a range of behavioral problems, including apathy, poor self-control, and executive dysfunction. The Frontal Systems Behavioral Scale (FrSBe) is a self-report instrument designed to measure behavioral problems resulting from damage to the frontal-striatal neural systems, involved both in brain insult and addiction. The aim of this study was twofold: (1) to compare the scores from the Spanish version of the FrSBe with the norms collected for American, English-speaking population; and (2) to examine the ability of the FrSBe to discriminate between two clinical populations (acquired brain injury (ABI) and addiction) with putative frontal dysfunction, as compared to a group of healthy participants. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 139 volunteers participated including 46 patients with frontal ABI (F-ABI), 57 abstinent substance abusers, and 36 healthy controls from the Spanish population. A Spanish version of the FrSBe was administered to all participants. We conducted multivariate analyses of variance to examine group differences across the three subscales: apathy, disinhibition, and executive dysfunction; and in the FrSBe total score. RESULTS: F-ABI and substance abusers had higher scores (i.e., greater impairment) than controls on the FrSBe total score; F-ABI patients scored significantly higher than substance abusers, and substance abusers significantly higher than controls. For specific subscales, F-ABI patients had higher scores than substance abusers and controls in the subscales of apathy, disinhibition and executive dysfunction, whereas substance abusers had greater executive dysfunction than controls. CONCLUSIONS: The Spanish version of the FrSBe is a useful instrument for the detection of behavioral problems associated with frontal systems dysfunction in two clinical samples of Spanish-speakers.


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Síntomas Afectivos/etiología , Lesiones Encefálicas/diagnóstico , Lesiones Encefálicas/psicología , Lóbulo Frontal/lesiones , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/diagnóstico , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/psicología , Adolescente , Adulto , Síntomas Afectivos/diagnóstico , Escolaridad , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Valor Predictivo de las Pruebas , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , España
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