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- Title
Procesos cognitivos en daño cerebral por infección.
- Authors
Ortiz Valencia, Juan Carlos
- Abstract
Cognitive processes let thinking about intellectual human abilities, interacting body-mind, and/or environment- mind, to understand the world from reciprocal and constant perception, speech, making decisions, memory, and emotions. But human fragility make us susceptible to suffer, both the normal aging impairment and caused by viral, bacterial, parasitic and fungal agents that alter such processes. Objective: To know the characteristics of cognitive processes assessment when there is brain damage or deterioration by infection. Methodology: Descriptive review trough data bases like EBSCO, NATURE -- International Weekly Journal of Science-, OXFORD academic, PsycARTICLES American Psychological Asociation, Science Direct (Journals), SCOPUS, Google Scholar, Redalyc.Org, y Scielo for information after to 2014. Results: Was found it that while different pathogens can alter de cellular estructure of the brain, and consequently their cognitive processes, this have a high sensibility to inflammation caused by virus; but nevertheless, there is no much known about how much cognitive function could be impaired and its response to common and aparently innocuous viral infection. Conclusions: It becomes important to be able to discern the care of different cognitive functions, both from healthy style life or primary prevention and from computarized technology using that allows the optimization of neuropsychological assessment for cognitive functions.
- Subjects
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests; BRAIN damage; GOOGLE Scholar (Web resource); COGNITIVE ability; VIRUS diseases; DECISION making
- Publication
Psicoespacios, 2019, Vol 13, Issue 22, p121
- ISSN
2145-2776
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25057/21452776.1209