Yuliana Andrea Florez-niño

• University of the Coast

Generalized anxiety has significantly increased in the general population during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the need for rapid screening tools. In this context, the present study analyzed the psychometric properties and internal consistency of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) in healthcare workers and the general po...

Introduction The prevalence of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) has increased rapidly, highlighting the importance of its detection using quick tools applicable to men and women from different countries. Objective To analyze the psychometric properties of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Test (GAD-7) by gender and country in Latin America and th...

Regular drug use, whether socially accepted, such as alcohol, tobacco, recreational cannabis, or self-prescribed medication abuse, or illicit, such as cocaine, heroin, and synthetic drugs, among others, has the potential to significantly affect the quality of life, health, and overall normal cognitive functioning. Unfortunately, intensive or chroni...

Alcohol abuse disorder (AAD) is recognized as a public health problem due to its psychosocial and interpersonal disturbances, as well as the various medical illnesses and personal costs it generates. At the mental level, alcohol excess and abuse affect higher functions, with different effects on cognitive and adaptive functioning. Thus, this chapte...

Alcoholism is a disease that marks serious connotations in the deterioration of the health, physical or mental, of the individual and in some way forces the family and its environment to suffer consequences, creating risks for itself as well as for the whole society, favouring the development of conflicts. The review of articles shows that the bigg...

Some patients with autism and severe intellectual disability may experience uncontrolled aggression, causing serious injury or harm to others, and the therapeutic ineffectiveness of traditional pharmacological and behavioral treatment may aggravate symptoms. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been tested in patients with little evidence in children a...

Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the mental health of healthcare workers. Objective. To estimate the prevalence of Burnout and its associated factors in a sample of healthcare professionals in Latin America. Method. In a cross-sectional multicenter study, 5.437 health professionals from 6 Latin America countries were...

Some patients with autism and severe intellectual disability may experience uncontrolled aggression, causing serious injury or harm to others, and the therapeutic ineffectiveness of traditional pharmacological and behavioral treatment may aggravate symptoms. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been tested in patients with little evidence in children a...

Introduction Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical technique used to manage aggression in patients who do not improve despite the use of appropriate drug treatment. Objective The objective of this study is to assess the impact of DBS on aggressive behavior refractory to the pharmacological and behavioral treatment of patients with Intellectua...

La capacidad visoespacial se asocia con habilidades clínicas en la educación médica, ya que predice el desempeño académico de los estudiantes de anatomía. Objetivo: Determinar si el procesamiento visoespacial genera cambios en la enseñanza de la anatomía médica y predice el desempeño académico en esa asignatura. Método: 140 estudiantes evaluados al...

Introduction: Recent reports have shown several cases of cerebrovascular events after vaccination against COVID-19. The effects have been described mainly in women within the first two weeks of receiving the vaccine. Clinical case: We describe here the first Colombian case of a cerebrovascular event after vaccination against COVID-19 in a 67-yea...

This study aims to find causal factors of aggression in a group of Latino adolescents to achieve a greater understanding of human nature, taking into account personal and contextual variables. The fundamental hypothesis is that moral disengagement, personality traits, self-esteem, values, parenting, sex, and socioeconomic situation can function as...