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Università della Svizzera italiana

Detecting Alzheimer’s disease (AD) : from the asymptomatic stages of healthy adults with AD genetic disposition to late stages of severe neurocognitive impairment

Ibnidris, Aliaa ; Albanese, Emiliano (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021BIOMED001.

Background: Dementia is a syndrome characterized by progressive cognitive impairment, psychological and behavioural symptoms, and functional deficits. It is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide; its impact and the associated costs are enormous. Consequently, dementia is a global public health priority, and so is Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia in late...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Translation and language policy in the dynamics of multilingualism

Grin, François

In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2017, vol. 2017, no. 243, p. 155-181

Université de Fribourg

Une didactique des langues étrangères ciblant l’acquisition des formes phonologiques peut sans doute être profitable à tous les élèves

Dherbey Chapuis, Nathalie

In: Babylonia: Journal of Language Education, 2021, no. 2, p. 96-103

The comparison of the effect of two targeted teaching methods on the acquisition of phonological representations of French as a foreign language by three dyslexic pupils showed that these pupils were able to benefit from targeted teaching, even for the acquisition of procedural representations. Targeted implicit teaching taught in an action-oriented communicative method enabled the observed...

Université de Fribourg

Negative association between left prefrontal GABA concentration and BDNF serum concentration in young adults

Müller, Sabrina Theresia ; Buchmann, Andreas ; Haynes, Melanie ; Ghisleni, Carmen ; Ritter, Christopher ; Tuura, Ruth ; Hasler, Gregor

In: Heliyon, 2020, vol. 6, no. 5, p. e04025

The brain's major inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) play important roles in several stress- related disorders. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) allows for non-invasive quantification of GABA concentration in the brain. We investigated the relationship between GABA concentration in the left dorsolateral prefrontal...