Utilidad de la psicoestimulación cognitiva en la enfermedad de Alzheimer : Estudio naturalístico

  1. Oscar Manuel Rueda Palacio 1
  2. Marta Uriarte Ituiño 1
  3. Carlos Hugo Criado del Valle 2
  4. Yolanda Bueno Aguado 1
  1. 1 Fundación INTRAS
  2. 2 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Proceedings:
Interpsiquis

Publisher: Psiquiatria.com

ISSN: 1137-3148

Year of publication: 2002

Congress: Interpsiquis: Congreso Virtual Internacional de Psiquiatría, Psicología y Salud Mental

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

Aims: To establish an Alzheimer disease treatment methodology including pharmacological intervention and multimode psychotherapy. To determinate the clinical usefullness of cognitive psychostimulation for Alzheimer Disease (AD). Design: Follow-up study in repeated series during 18 months. Besides, it is included a control group from same assistance environment selected with no random criteria. Subjects: 54 Alzheimer Disease patients following the ICD-10 criteria. Variables: Gradior program internal variables are studied related to cognitive performance on psychostimulation exercises as well as those related to exercise type (cognitive activity and exercise contents). Besides, standard neuropsychological evaluation tools are used: MMSE, ADAS, Clock Drawing Test, Life quality scale, Barthel, Lawton, Zarit scale. However, for this study, only the results MEC-related are presented. Data analysis and Discussin: Through a temporal series study applying basic statistics treatment efficiency are sorted out. The study show that Alzheimer disease patients preserve the cognitive capacity assessed by psychometric procedures after 18 months with psychostimulation intervention. So, the improvement is higher in the experimental group than control group. The authors consider necessary doing more studies about it, and promove development of psychostimulation intervention in Alzheimer disease.

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