Braga Pereira, Joana (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is currently the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s disease (AD), affecting 100.000 people in Spain and more than 4 million people worldwide. Being ...
Ramírez Ruiz, Blanca (Date of defense: 2006-07-03)
Cognitive impairment of different degrees and hallucinations are common complications of chronic Parkinson's disease (PD). The pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and relationship between cognitive deficits ...
Fernández Espejo, Davinia (Date of defense: 2010-12-10)
The Vegetative State (VS) is a clinical condition characterized by wakefulness in the absence of awareness of self or environment. A person in a VS retains autonomic functions but exhibits no evidence ...
Inguanzo Pons, Anna (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
[eng] INTRODUCTION: Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) appear as neurodegenerative disorders with a wide range of symptomatology that differs among patients, among which are ...
Giménez Navarro, Mónica (Date of defense: 2006-10-20)
The general aim of this thesis is to study the cerebral basis of cognitive disturbances in adolescents with history of premature birth (PB). As previous manual volumetric investigations in PB samples, ...
Ibarretxe Bilbao, Naroa (Date of defense: 2009-12-21)
According neuropathological research limbic changes occur in Parkinson's disease with and without dementia. Structural MRI have reported atrophy of limbic structures including amygadala and hippocampus, ...
Baggio, Hugo César (Date of defense: 2014-10-06)
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative process with several motor and non-motor manifestations. Among non-motor symptoms, cognitive decline is a major cause of disability, and its neural bases are ...
Sala Llonch, Roser (Date of defense: 2015-01-13)
Aquesta tesi inclou 6 estudis en els quals s’han utilitzat diversos mètodes d’imatge per ressonància magnètica (IRM) per caracteritzar la connectivitat cerebral i la seva relació amb l’estat cognitiu ...
Palacios, Eva M. (Date of defense: 2013-05-31)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can be defined as an alteration in brain function or evidence of brain pathology caused by an external force. In this thesis the focus of attention is on brain diffuse axonal ...
Ortiz Gil, Jordi (Date of defense: 2012-09-14)
Background: In recent years it has become recognized that schizophrenia is associated with cognitive impairment, which affects particularly executive function and memory. Although cognitive impairment ...