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    • Thumala Dockendorff, Daniela Cecilia; Kennedy, Brian K.; Calvo, Esteban; González Billault, Christian; Zitko, Pedro; Lillo Zurita, Patricia; Villagra Castro, Roque; Ibáñez, Agustín; Assar, Rodrigo; Andrade, Maricarmen; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Routledge, 2017)
      Population aging is among the most important global transformations. Compared to European and North American countries, Chile is among the countries with the fastest growth of life expectancy at birth during recent decades. ...
    • Musa Salech, Gada; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Muñoz Neira, Carlos; Méndez, Carolina; Villagra Castro, Roque; González Billault, Christian; Ibáñez, Agustín; Hornberger, Michael; Lillo, Patricia (IOS Press, 2020)
      Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the most common neurodegenerative early-onset dementias. Despite the fact that both conditions have a very distinctive clinical pattern, they present with an ...
    • Miranda, Marcelo; Dichgans, Martin; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Urbina, Francisco; Mena, Ismael; Venegas Francke, Pablo; Gálvez Moya, Marcelo (WILEY-LISS, DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 2006-07)
      Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a hereditary vascular disease that usually begins with migraine, followed by repeated strokes and progressive dementia. ...
    • Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (LOM Ediciones, 2015)
      El libro de la académica de la Facultad de Medicina e investigadora del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE), Andrea Slachevsky, es una recopilación de artículos publicados por la autora en la revista Qué ...
    • Sekler, Alejandra; Jiménez, José M.; Rojo, Leonel; Pastene, Edgard; Fuentes, Patricio; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Maccioni Baraona, Ricardo (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Oxidative stress has be en implicated in the progression of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, inc1uding Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. We carried out a~ in-depth ...
    • Arenas Massa, Angela; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)
      © 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. In Chile, more than 180 thousand people (1% of the population) have some form of dementia. The figure should increase to approximately 600,000 (3% of Chileans) by ...
    • Parra, Marrio A.; Baez, Sandra; Allegri, Ricardo; Nitrini, Ricardo; Lopera, Francisco; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Custodio, Nilton; Lira, David; Piguet, Olivier; Kumfor, Fiona; Huepe, David; Cogram, Patricia; Bak, Thomas; Manes, Facundo; Ibañez, Agustín (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2018)
      The demographic structure of Latin American countries (LAC) is fast approaching that of developing countries, and the predicted prevalence of dementia in the former already exceeds the latter. Dementia has been declared a ...
    • Custodio, Nilton; Wheelock, Ana; Thumala Dockendorff, Daniela Cecilia; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Frontiers media SA, 2017)
      Population aging is among the most important global transformations. Today, 12% of the world population is of age 60 and over and by the middle of this century this segment will represent 21.5%. The increase in population ...
    • Silva, Jaime R.; Livacic Rojas, Pablo; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (2006)
      Background: Restrained eaters (RE) are individuals who restrain their food intake on a regular basis as they are frightened to gain weight. However, they tend to overeat under conditions of anxiety. It has been shown ...
    • Bozanic Leal, Agnieszka (Universidad de Chile, 2011)
      El Trastorno por Déficit Atencional/Hiperactividad (TDAH) persiste en un porcentaje importante de adultos con antecedentes de TDAH en la infancia, lo cual tiene importantes repercusiones en la calidad de vida y rendimiento ...
    • León, T.; Castro, L.; Mascayano, F.; Lawlor, B. A.; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
    • Bachli, M. Belén; Sedeño, Lucas; Ochab, Jeremi K; Piguet, Olivier; Kumfor, Fiona; Reyes, Pablo; Torralva, Teresa; Roca, María; Cardona, Juan Felipe; González Campo, Cecilia; Herrera, Eduar; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Matallana, Diana; Manes, Facundo; García, Adolfo M.; Ibáñez, Agustín; Chialvo, Dante R. (Elsevier, 2020)
      Accurate early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases represents a growing challenge for current clinical practice. Promisingly, current tools can be complemented by computational decision-support methods to objectively ...
    • Orellana, Gricel; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Boada Peña, Marcela Paz (2012)
      Background: We compared the attention abilities of a group of first-episode schizophrenia (FES) patients and a group of healthy participants using the Attention Network Test (ANT), a standard procedure that estimates the ...
    • García Cordero, Indira; Sedeño, Lucas; De La Fuente, Laura; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Forno, Gonzalo; Klein, Francisco; Lillo Zurita, Patricia; Ferrari, Jesica; Rodríguez, Clara; Bustin, Julian; Torralva, Teresa; Báez, Sandra; Yoris, Adrián; Esteves, Sol; Melloni, Margherita; Salamone, Paula; Huepe, David; Manes, Facundo; García, Adolfo; Ibáñez, Agustín (Royal Society, 2016)
      Interoception is a complex process encompassing multiple dimensions, such as accuracy, learning and awareness. Here, we examined whether each of those dimensions relies on specialized neural regions distributed throughout ...
    • Santamaría-García, Hernando; Reyes, Pablo; García, Adolfo; Baéz, Sandra; Martinez, Angela; Santacruz, José Manuel; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Sigman, Mariano; Matallana, Diana; Ibañez, Agustín (IOS Press, 2016)
      © 2016-IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. Background: Previous works highlight the neurocognitive differences between apathetic and disinhibited clinical presentations of the behavioral variant frontotemporal ...
    • Riveros, Rodrigo; Bakchine, Serge; Pillon, Bernard; Poupon, Fabrice; Miranda, Marcelo; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)
      In humans and non-humans primates, extensive evidence supports the existence of subcortico-cortical circuits for cognition and behavior. Lesions studies are critical to understand the clinical significance of these ...
    • Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Zitko, Pedro; Martínez Pernía, David; Forno, Gonzalo; Court, Felipe A.; Lillo, Patricia; Villagra Castro, Roque; Durán Aniotz, Claudia Andrea; Parrao, Teresa; Assar, Rodrigo; Orellana, Paulina; Toledo, Carolina; Rivera, Rodrigo; Ibáñez, Agustín; Parra, Mario A.; González Billault, Christian; Amieva, Helena; Thumala, Daniela (BMC, 2020)
      Background: With the global population aging and life expectancy increasing, dementia has turned a priority in the health care system. In Chile, dementia is one of the most important causes of disability in the elderly ...
    • Lillo Zurita, Patricia; Caramelli, Paulo; Musa, Gada; Parrao, Teresa; Hughes García, Ricardo; Aragón Gutiérrez, Andrés; Valenzuela Torres, Daniel; Cea Muñoz, Gabriel; Aránguiz, Rafael; Guimaraes, Henrique Cerqueira; Rousseff, Laura; Gambogi, Leandro Boson; Mariano, Luciano Inacio; Teixeira, Antonio Lucio; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea; Cruz de Souza, Leonardo (BMJ, 2020)
      Objective To compare social cognition performance between patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and those patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Methods We included 21 ...