Cognitive rehabilitation for people with Alzheimer’s disease
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by Dunia Chappotin
2y ago
14kviews Alzheimer’s disease is relentless. It progresses steadily while we are waiting for a miracle drug to get us out of this nightmare. While we want to remain optimistic, such magic pills may not reach the market for years to come, and the current medication leaves most people unsatisfied. What should we do? Sit back and do nothing while the quality of life of patients decreases? If we look well, there are more optimistic answers and strategies that will improve our role as professionals: cognitive rehabilitation for people with Alzheimer’s is one of those answers. From NeuronUP, we clear ..read more
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5 movies depicting neurodegenerative diseases
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by NeuronUP
3y ago
20.4kviews Movies provide us with stories of fantasy, comedy, adventure, or drama. Movies are much more than simple entertainment. Cinema is a fundamental tool to raise awareness about adverse real-life situations. Health problems and illnesses are part of life; hence they play an important role in the film industry. Through a story plot, cinema is capable of capturing the everyday life of patients trying to overcome a disease, which also helps us become aware of the difficulties these patients have to face. Today we are going to talk about 5 movies depicting neurodegenerative diseases. 5 movi ..read more
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Learning functional skills. Implications for rehabilitation after acquired brain injury
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by Ángel Sanchez
3y ago
4.9kviews Over the past two decades, motor learning has been defined in many ways. While motor control focuses on understanding the control of movement already acquired, motor learning is comprised of a group of abstract ideas about how movement is acquired and/or modified, while offering a temporal perspective focused on the characteristics of the learning process. Notions related to the organization of treatments designed to maximize results, to improve transfer of learning and the design of essential activities of the rehabilitation process are, among others, issues to which motor learning ..read more
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Down Madrid tells us its experience with telerehabilitation
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by Jorge Gonzalez
3y ago
The Down Syndrome Foundation of Madrid counts on its experience with NeuronUP and the opportunity that telerehabilitation represents for both professionals and patients. The work of Down Madrid The Madrid Down Syndrome Foundation is an organization that currently supports more than 1,300 people with intellectual disabilities of all ages, including their families. It has the following services and lines of activity: Early Care Center, Family School Program, two Special Education schools, an Occupational Center, a Volunteer Service to support people with intellectual disabilities to volunteer in ..read more
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Create your personalized Christmas carol with NeuronUP!
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by NeuronUP
3y ago
This year will be one of the strangest Christmas of our lives. Covid-19 has changed everything, but its up to us to live this Christmas in the best possible way. And at NeuronUP we want to help you to achieve it.  That’s why we have designed a Christmas game that consists of creating a personalized Christmas carol so that your patients can surprise their family and friends with a different kind of happiness. Create your own personalized Christmas Carol Create your Christmas Carol Just follow these steps: Click here. Select a background and click on “Start” 3. Move a character to the ..read more
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The neuropsychological clinic: what it is, methodology and objectives
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by Marcela Alegre
3y ago
What is the Neuropsychological Clinic? The neuropsychological clinic is based on rehabilitation treatments, stimulation and cognitive training programs through NeuronUP and implementation of behavioral therapeutic techniques and strategies. To establish a personal profile we must understand the biological nature of our thoughts, emotions, motivations and behaviors. Nowadays, technology allows us to divulge the physiology of behavior. If we control our cognitive abilities and our emotional world we can consequently achieve our goals or projects. That is why we stimulate learning, open-mindednes ..read more
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Presentation by Fabiola García Vaz on neuropsychological rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis
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by NeuronUP
3y ago
596views Neuropsychologist Fabiola García Vaz will give a free online lecture at NeuronUP Academy entitled “Neuropsychological rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis: advances in research” on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 8.00 p.m. (Spain time). Register for free now! Sign up free for the presentation by Fabiola Garcia Vaz   Information regarding the lecture on neuropsychological rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis Title of the presentation: Neuropsychological rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis: advances in research Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2020  Schedule: Spain: 8.00 p.m A ..read more
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Celebrities help normalize mental health problems
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by NeuronUP
3y ago
A new trend is emerging in the seemingly perfect world of celebrities, and that is that in recent years the number of celebrities who have decided to open up to public opinion and expose their mental health problems has multiplied exponentially. Mental Health Issues at the Center of the Conversation From actors to musicians to soccer players have decided to do their bit for the transcendental cause of eliminating the stigma that reigns around the figure of the psychologist. The fear of being labeled is a brake for many people, when the fact of going to a specialist does not imply being crazy ..read more
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Are there differences between face-to-face and online neurorehabilitation? Case Study
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by Consultora-Strategia
3y ago
The Bolivian company Consultora-Strategia explains the differences between neurorehabilitation in person and online with the example of a girl with low attention span. , Consultora-Strategia is a company made up of professionals with more than twenty years of experience in different areas related to psychology. We offer services in two important branches: the area of human resources through our system of Online Psychometrics (Strategia-Solutions) and the Educational area, whose activities are related to our Expert Process of Vocational Guidance and Cognitive Neurorehabilitation. How did we wor ..read more
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Reading problems: how to train reading difficulties
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by NeuronUP
3y ago
The Aldu Support Center for Children and Adolescents explains today in the blog reading problems, the most frequent reading difficulties and how to work on reading problems Aldu:  what do we do? Aldu is a neuropsychological therapeutic center, where we treat and work on motor and developmental problems derived from the development of children and adolescents, as well as learning difficulties and problems derived from the academic environment. To this end, we have a complete group of professionals from different therapeutic fields to provide a comprehensive and complete response to these d ..read more
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