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January 2012 - present
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Objective
To identify predictors of persistent cognitive impairment at 12 months after hospitalization due to COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.
Design
Retrospective, single-centre study.
Subjects
All consecutive patients assessed in physical and rehabilitation medicine consultations at 3 months with a neuropsychiatric testing (NPT) at 6 months.
M...
Irony is a kind of figurative language used by a speaker to say something that contrasts with the context and, to some extent, lends humor to a situation. However, little is known about the brain regions that specifically support the processing of these two common features of irony. The present study had two main aims: (i) investigate the neural ba...
Purpose:
A qualitative work is conducted to enable later the construction of a health-related quality of life (HRQL) questionnaire for patients with slowly-progressive neuromuscular disease (NMD) such as myopathies and muscular dystrophies.
Methods:
The formation of focus groups is an efficient method to perform an in-depth exploration of the as...
To build a questionnaire to assess health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients suffering from slowly progressive neuromuscular disease (NMD) using item response theory (IRT).
A pool of 64 items and a validated questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) were administered to 159 patients recruited in eight NMD referral centers. Exploratory statistical analysi...
Verbal irony relies on contrast, that is, incongruity between the situational context and the ironic assertion. But is the degree of contrast related to the perceived humorousness of ironic comments? We answered this question by conducting two experiments. In the first experiment, participants were asked to read a list of sentence pairs (ironic or...
The analysis of caregiver difficulties seems important to define the life of the patient. The aim of the study was to evaluate the burden of perceived care, health-related quality of life, and mental health of family caregivers who care for patients with hereditary neuromuscular disease.
Fifty-nine family caregivers were investigated in the course...
Objective. – The analysis of caregiver difficulties seems important to define the life of the patient. The aim of the study was to evaluate the burden of perceived care, health-related quality of life, and mental health of family caregivers who care for patients with hereditary neuromuscular disease.Materials and method. – Fifty-nine family caregiv...