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Foro sobre salud mental 2011, conclusiones y pasos futuros
(Acta médica costarricense Vol 55 (3), julio-setiembre 2013, 132-138, 2013-07)
Antecedentes: la salud es un proceso social que tiene como fin el bienestar físico y mental del
individuo a través de todas las etapas de su vida. A pesar de numerosos esfuerzos, en Costa Rica, el
abordaje en salud mental ...
Substance use disorder and schizophrenia: prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics in the Latin American population
Esquizofrenia y trastorno en el consumo de sustancias: prevalencia y características sociodemográficas en la población Latina
(Actas Esp Psiquiatr 2011;39(2):123-30, 2011)
El interés por comprender la co-morbilidad de la esquizofrenia
y el trastorno en el uso de sustancias, ha aumentado
debido al incremento de este diagnóstico, a los
efectos negativos observados en el sujeto y a los ...
Vibrio mimicus diarrhea following ingestion of raw turtle eggs
(Applied and environmental microbiology, Apr. 1996, p. 1141–1144, 1996-04)
Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of diarrhea associated with Vibrio mimicus were identified in 33 hospitalized patients referred to the Costa Rican National Diagnostic Laboratory Network between 1991 and 1994. ...
Genetic Structure Analysis of Three Hispanic Populations from Costa Rica, Mexico, and the Southwestern United States Using Y-Chromosome STR Markers and mtDNA Sequences
(Human Biology, October 2006, v. 78, no. 5, pp. 551–563., 2006)
Two hundred seventeen male subjects from Costa Rica, Mexico,
and the Hispanic population of the southwestern United States were
studied. Twelve Y-chromosome STRs and the HVSI sequence of the mtDNA
were analyzed to ...
Desempeño de la prueba “Mini-Mental State Examination” en personas adultas mayores sin deterioro cognitivo
Performance of the test Mini-Mental State Examination y elderly without cognitive impairment
(2017)
Objetivo: Establecer datos normativos de la prueba MMSE estratificada por edad y
escolaridad en personas adultas mayores costarricenses sin deterioro cognitivo,
identificar los ítems que presentan mayor dificultad en ...
Diagnosis of Schizophrenia in Latino Populations. A Comparison of Direct Interview and Consensus Based Multi-Source Methods
(Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2009;197: 530–535, 2009-07)
We determined the rates of agreement between diagnoses, using
the Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies (DIGS) and diagnoses arrived
at, using additional sources of information, to establish whether there are
differences ...
Adjudicating Neurocognitive Endophenotypes for Schizophrenia
(American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B (Neuropsychiatric Genetics) 144B:242–249 (2007), 2007-03-05)
Although genetic influences on schizophrenia
are well established, localization of the genes
responsible for this illness has proven extremely
difficult. Given evidence that genes predisposing
to schizophrenia may be ...
The epsin 4 gene is associated with psychotic disorders in families of Latin American origin
(Schizophrenia Research vol. 106, num 2 (2008) 253–257, 2008-10-20)
This study attempted to replicate evidence for association of the Epsin 4 gene (which encodes
enthoprotin, a protein involved in vesicular transport) to schizophrenia in a new sample of
families segregating schizophrenia ...
Heritability of Cognitive Functions in Families of Successful Cognitive Aging Probands from the Central Valley of Costa Rica
(J Alzheimers Dis. 2011 ; 27(4): 897–907. doi:10.3233/JAD-2011-110782., 2011)
We sought to identify cognitive phenotypes for family/genetic studies of successful cognitive
aging (SCA; maintaining intact cognitive functioning while living to late old age).We
administered a battery of neuropsychological ...