Fernando Carvajal-Molina's research while affiliated with Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and other places

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Introduction Autistic men and women are more likely to experience health issues than the general population, although the available epidemiological studies addressing co-occurrence conditions are limited. This is the first Spanish epidemiologic study addressing the health profile and poor-health exacerbating factors in individuals of all ages with...
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Introduction: The concept of quality of life is of great importance for interventions directed at people living with disabilities. It is undeniable that the achievement of a satisfactory quality of life should be the objective of clinical interventions that are directed at the group of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and should be a key...
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Introduction Emotional processing is basic for social behaviour. We examine for the first time the facial emotion processing in long‐term HIV‐suppressed patients. Materials and Methods Cross‐sectional study comparing (ANOVA) six facial emotional processing tasks (two discrimination, two memory and two recognition) between HIV‐suppressed patients (...
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Down syndrome is an autosomal trisomy that traditionally has been studied independently from fields such as medicine, biology or psychology. In this article, we intend to go further and incorporate a multidisciplinary approach that includes, on the one hand, the main findings of these disciplines and, the theories, that attempt to explain the compl...
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Emotional facial expression is a basic guide during social interaction and, therefore, alterations in their expression or recognition are important limitations for communication. To examine facial expression recognition abilities and their possible impairment in Parkinson's disease. First, we review the studies on this topic which have not found en...
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Introduction. Emotional facial expression is a basic guide during social interaction and, therefore, alterations in their expression or recognition are important limitations for communication. Aim. To examine facial expression recognition abilities and their possible impairment in Parkinson’s disease. Development. First, we review the studies on t...
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Characteristic symptoms of autistic disorder (AD) can be the result of cognitive impairment which can be produced by specific neurological irregularities. Up until now a specific cognitive deficit in autism has not been found, although the majority of people with autism show intellectual impairment, verbal scores lower than manipulative measures an...
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Paroxysmal discharges have been observed in non epileptic children who, at the same time, display learning disorders. In this study our aim is to determine whether the association between sub clinical discharges (SCD) and learning disorders reflects specific neuropsychological deficiencies and, more particularly, whether the possible deficits are d...

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... Questi aspetti pongono sfide rilevanti ai sistemi sanitari, ai cui servizi viene richiesto sempre più di adottare approcci olistici e integrativi, in grado di coprire tutti i domini relativi alla salute. Un numero crescente di ricerche sostiene la grande utilità dell'applicazione della QdV per implementare i diversi tipi d'intervento (Cuesta-Gomez et al., 2016;Brown et al., 2013;. ...
... While the literature on the effects of HIV on emotion processing is still developing, early studies have provided important insights. As a group, HIV+ persons show moderately slower response times and reduced accuracy identifying and discriminating amongst facial emotional expressions (Gonzalez-Baeza et al., 2014;Heilman et al., 2013;Lane et al., 2012;Lysaker et al., 2012), with several of the studies finding specific effects for processing negative emotions such as sadness (Gonzalez-Baeza et al., 2014) and fear (Baldonero et al., 2013;Clark et al., 2015; (Clark et al., 2015). The HIV literature has not revealed consistent associations between emotion processing and mood, demographics, or traditional markers of disease severity in HIV (Baldonero et al., 2013;Clark et al., 2010;Heilman et al., 2013;Lane et al., 2012). ...
... The reviewed studies indicated that most individuals with DS exhibit a variety of anatomical abnormalities, including brachycephaly and reduced regional brain volumes, particularly in the cerebellum, frontal and temporal lobes, and brainstem. A considerable increase in the volume of the cerebral ventricles was also noted, as well as a smaller hippocampus and amygdala, a narrower superior temporal gyrus, and a decrease in the number and depth of cortical sulci and convolutions (Fernandez-Alcaraz and Carvajal-Molina, 2014). Similarly, distinctive neuropathological signs of AD in the fourth decade of life were reported in the earliest related studies (Wisniewski et al., 1985;de la Monte and Hedley-Whyte, 1990). ...
... De la misma manera, según Morgade et al. (1999), la presencia de descargas paroxísticas subclínicas implican la aparición de un trastorno cognitivo transitorio; al igual que la actividad paroxística intercrítica característica de los pacientes epilépticos, tales DSC pueden acompañarse de disfunciones cerebrales momentáneas, que se ponen de manifiesto en una mayor latencia de respuesta o en un mayor número de errores durante la realización de distintas tareas (González et al., 1993, Morgade et al., 1999. Además, se conoce que los sujetos con epilepsia tienen mayor riesgo de presentar problemas de aprendizaje que la población general y los neurofisiólogos clínicos identifican con elevada frecuencia niños con DSC que presentan problemas de aprendizaje y conducta (Carvajal, Iglesias, Morgade et al., 2003). En el estudio presentado, se usaron dos criterios para definir problemas de aprendizaje: el clínico (trastorno del aprendizaje) reportado en la tabla 5 (González, 2019). ...
... El reconocimiento de expresiones faciales de emoción incluye no sólo la identificación del contenido afectivo sino también procesos ejecutivos, perceptivos y mnésicos 21 . En esta habilidad influye una variedad de factores tales como tipo de tareas, modalidad de los estímulos, medicación antiparkinsoniana, estado emocional del participante, funcionamiento visuoespacial y ejecutivo y otros factores (cfr. ...
... Previous research suggested that non-motor symptoms are prevalent among individuals with PD and that they may improve after aerobic exercise interventions, although this was not supported by our findings. Emerging literature has suggested that individuals with Parkinson's disease may have a deficit in recognizing facial expression, or emotional recognition [41][42][43], hence why it was included in the non-motor assessment. Our past high cadence cycling research has primarily focused on motor symptom outcomes, such as rigidity and bradykinesia, in individuals with PD [20,21,44,45]. ...
... For instance, the substantia nigra may be involved in one such symptom as circling behaviour and oxytocin and vasopressin in amygdala and abnormal synthesis of serotonin in the cortical region may determine other characteristic features of autism (Zwaigenbaum et al., 2005). In spite of this, a specific cognitive deficit in autism has not been found (Carvajal-Molina et al., 2005 ) and there are no universally accepted changes in brain structure, cell composition and clinical or biomarkers for autism (Beauregard et al., 1995; Bauman, 1996; Zilbovicius et al., 2000; Waiter et al., 2005). ...