Jorge Muñoz-Ruata
M.D.
Fundación Promiva · Neurociencia Cognitiva
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  • Jan 2011
    Research: Comunidad de Madrid
    Comunidad de Madrid
    Spain · Madrid

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  • Answer added in Philosophy of Mind
    10 Are there evolutionary advantages to having mild schizophrenia?
    By Stephen Pedersen · Eastern Michigan University
    Jorge Muñoz-Ruata · Fundación Promiva
    Of course there are similarities between some aspects of philosophy and maybe science with schizophrenia. If I say, for example: Everything flows noth... [more]
  • Answer added in Cognitive Neuropsychology
    19 What is the relationship between executive function and subcortical regions?
    By Frederick Navarro · Walden University
    Jorge Muñoz-Ruata · Fundación Promiva
    I would like to highlight the role of the basal ganglia in emotions and perception of emotions as Frederick Navarro says (Li, W., Zinbarg, R., Boehm, ... [more]
  • Answer added in Brain Function
    4 I need some information about evoked potentials. Can anyone help me?
    By Hammad Ahmed · Cairo University
    Jorge Muñoz-Ruata · Fundación Promiva
    Dear Hammad, In the chapter “Frontal Dysfunction in Intellectual Disability”, available in my profile, there is a section about “Cognitive Neur... [more]
  • Answer added in Cognition
    7 Does anyone have research relating to child labour and cognitive processes?
    By Alma Dzib Goodin ·
    Jorge Muñoz-Ruata · Fundación Promiva
    En 1984 coordiné la publicación de un libro: "Soy útil", en el que una buena parte se dedicó al análisis de tareas para la formación profesional... [more]

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    Dataset: THE FACE-HAND TEST NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS IN MENTALLY RETARDED PATIENTS
    Jorge Muñoz Ruata, José Agüero Cáceres, Luciano Montero Viejo
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    Chapter: FRONTAL DYSFUNCTION IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
    Jorge Muñoz-Ruata,  Lourdes Martínez-Pérez, Elena Caro-Martínez, Marisé Borja-Tomé
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    ABSTRACT: This chapter discusses symptoms present in many Intellectual Disability cases, which, according to neuropsychology current knowledge, are attributed to dysfunctions on different parts of the frontal lobe. These symptoms and their impact on the capabilities and behavior of people with Intellectual Disability are analyzed as well as their evaluation methods, following a functional complexity order going from the sensory-motor aspects to the cognitive process. Firstly we study the sensory-motor changes, beginning with those produced by motor córtex dysfunction and their relationship with the subcortical motor system. Then we describe the premotor córtex disorders symptoms mainly those related to temporal organization of movement and eye tracking disorders. Finally, we analyze the planning, monitoring, and activity regulation capabilities attributed to the prefrontal córtex. Cognition involvement should be minimal in order to be able to evaluate these functions at the sensory-motor level. Furthermore, this evaluation must be sensitive to subtle disorders. To this purpose we propose a neurological examination that, in addition to neurological hard signs, looks specifically for subtle neurological abnormalities in sensory or motor performance with neurological soft signs. The second part deals with frontal lobe neuropsychology, with special emphasis on those cognitive aspects most frequently affected in Intellectual Disability. Therefore we study changes and alterations on Attentional Mechanisms, on working memory, on praxias activity organization and control, on language, on different ways of thinking and reasoning, on metacognition and on motivation and emotions. We describe tests for the cognitive processes evaluation, that even if designed for use in the general population, have also proven to be suitable for use in people with Intellectual Disability, at least, among mild and medium grades. The third section summarizes the frontal lobe symptoms found in people with the three most common syndromes in Intellectual Disability. Finally, we discuss the peculiarities of the person with ID neurophysiology, the electroencephalogram (EEG) and event related potentials (ERPs) related to frontal functions, among which stand out the contingent negative variation (CNV) for the attention expectancy study; the "oddball" paradigms derived waves (N1 - P3) to study the attention orientation, perceptual discrimination and evaluation of the relevance, and the Error Related Negativity (ERN), a potential observed following errors. We present a review of the involvement of all the above ERPs in cognition studies.
    01/2013: pages 1-66;
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    Article: Redes de percepción-acción en trastornos de aprendizaje [Perception-action networks in learning disorders]
    Jorge Muñoz Ruata
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    ABSTRACT: Abstract: Managing mental representation depends on the networks of perception -action, so its disturbance seems responsible for many learning disabilities. First we present a brief study showing the relationships between visual perception and mental representation. After reviewing the literature on the relationship between perceptual and executive areas other study is conducted to verify firstly, brain activation differences between passive and active visual perception and secondly, to check the tuning between visual perceptual and executive areas, by study the coherence of its oscillations.
    Participación Educativa. 12/2012; Número 1 2ª Época:1-17.
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    Dataset: La Escala de Inteligencia de Wechsler para Niños- IV (WISC-IV) en un grupo de DI
    J Muñoz-Ruata, L. Martínez-Pérez
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    Article: Capacidad y discapacidad intelectual: una propuesta semiótico neurológica
    Jorge Muñoz-Ruata
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    ABSTRACT: Propuesta semiótico neurológica para el estudio de la discapacidad intelectual
    Ethos Educativo. 01/2008; 41(Enero-Abril 2008):77-98.

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