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    The “when” matters: Evidence from memory markers in the clinical continuum of Alzheimer’s disease.
    (2023)
    Gonzalo Forno
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    Mario A. Parra
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    Daniela Thumala
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    Roque Villagra
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    Mauricio Cerda
      6Scopus© Citations 5
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    Assessing subjective cognitive decline in older adults attending primary health care centers: what question should be asked?
    (2023)
    Matías Molina-Donoso
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    Teresa Parrao
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    Céline Meillon
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    Daniela Thumala
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    Patricia Lillo
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    Does culture shape our understanding of others’ thoughts and emotions? An investigation across 12 countries.
    (2022)
    François Quesque
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    Antoine Coutrot
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    Sharon Cox
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    Leonardo Cruz de Souza
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    Sandra Baez
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    GERO Cohort Protocol, Chile, 2017–2022: Community-based Cohort of Functional Decline in Subjective Cognitive Complaint elderly
    (2020) ;
    Pedro Zitko
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    David Martínez-Pernía
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    Gonzalo Forno
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    Felipe A. Court
    <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>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 and the most rapidly growing cause of death in the last 20 years. Cognitive complaint is considered a predictor for cognitive and functional decline, incident mild cognitive impairment, and incident dementia. The GERO cohort is the Chilean core clinical project of the Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism (GERO). The objective of the GERO cohort is to analyze the rate of functional decline and progression to clinical dementia and their associated risk factors in a community-dwelling elderly with subjective cognitive complaint, through a population-based study. We also aim to undertake clinical research on brain ageing and dementia disorders, to create data and biobanks with the appropriate infrastructure to conduct other studies and facilitate to the national and international scientific community access to the data and samples for research.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>The GERO cohort aims the recruitment of 300 elderly subjects (&gt; 70 years) from Santiago (Chile), following them up for at least 3 years. Eligible people are adults not diagnosed with dementia with subjective cognitive complaint, which are reported either by the participant, a proxy or both. Participants are identified through a household census. The protocol for evaluation is based on a multidimensional approach including socio-demographic, biomedical, psychosocial, neuropsychological, neuropsychiatric and motor assessments. Neuroimaging, blood and stool samples are also obtained. This multidimensional evaluation is carried out in a baseline and 2 follow-ups assessments, at 18 and 36 months. In addition, in months 6, 12, 24, and 30, a telephone interview is performed in order to keep contact with the participants and to assess general well-being.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion</jats:title><jats:p>Our work will allow us to determine multidimensional risks factors associated with functional decline and conversion to dementia in elderly with subjective cognitive complain. The aim of our GERO group is to establish the capacity to foster cutting edge and multidisciplinary research on aging in Chile including basic and clinical research.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Trial registration</jats:title><jats:p><jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04265482">NCT04265482</jats:ext-link>in ClinicalTrials.gov. Registration Date: February 11, 2020. Retrospectively Registered.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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    Inside minds, beneath diseases: social cognition in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal spectrum disorder
    (2020)
    Patricia Lillo
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    Paulo Caramelli
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    Gada Musa
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    Teresa Parrao
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    Ricardo Hughes
    <jats:sec><jats:title>Objective</jats:title><jats:p>To compare social cognition performance between patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and those patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>We included 21 participants with ALS, 20 with bvFTD and 21 healthy controls who underwent a comprehensive cognitive battery, including the short version of the Social Cognition and Emotional Assessment (Mini-SEA), which comprises the <jats:italic>faux pas</jats:italic> test and Facial Emotion Recognition Test (FERT); Mini-Mental State Examination; Frontal Assessment Battery; lexical fluency (F-A-S), category fluency (animals/minute), digit span (direct and backwards) tests and the Hayling test. A post hoc analysis was conducted with the patients with ALS divided into two subgroups: patients without cognitive impairment (ALScn; n=13) and patients with cognitive impairment (ALSci; n=8).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>No significant difference was noted between participant groups in terms of the age, sex and education. ALS-total group and patients with bvFTD had similar disease durations. Patients with ALSci performed poorly when compared with controls with regard to the FERT (p&lt;0.001), the <jats:italic>faux pas</jats:italic> (p&lt;0.004) and the Mini-SEA (p&lt;0.002) total scores. Moreover, patients with bvFTD performed poorly in comparison with controls in executive and social cognition tests. The performance of patients with ALSci was similar to that of patients with bvFTD, while the performance of patients with ALScn was similar to that of controls.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion</jats:title><jats:p>Our findings support a cognitive continuum between ALS and bvFTD and shed light on the cognitive heterogeneity of ALS, expanding its possible neuropsychological profiles.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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