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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...

Université de Fribourg

Mapping the development of visual information use for facial expression recognition

Rodger, Helen ; Caldara, Roberto (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2019.

In this thesis, I aimed to map the development of facial expression recognition from early childhood up to adulthood by identifying for the first time in the literature the quantity and quality of visual information needed to recognise the six 'basic' emotions. Using behavioural and eye tracking measures, the original contributions of this thesis include: 1. An unbiased fine-grained mapping of...

Université de Fribourg

Olfactory dysfunction in the pathophysiological continuum of dementia

Bathini, Praveen ; Brai, Emanuele ; Alberi Auber, Lavinia

In: Ageing Research Reviews, 2019, vol. 55, p. 100956

Sensory capacities like smell, taste, hearing, vision decline with aging, but increasing evidence show that sensory dysfunctions are one of the early signs diagnosing the conversion from physiological to pathological brain state. Smell loss represents the best characterized sense in clinical practice and is considered as one of the first preclinical signs of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s...

Université de Fribourg

A systematic review on the possible relationship between bilingualism, cognitive decline, and the onset of dementia

Noort, Maurits Van den ; Vermeire, Katrien ; Bosch, Peggy ; Staudte, Heike ; Krajenbrink, Trudy ; Jaswetz, Lars ; Struys, Esli ; Yeo, Sujung ; Barisch, Pia ; Perriard, Benoît ; Lee, Sook-Hyun ; Lim, Sabina

In: Behavioral Sciences, 2019, vol. 9, no. 7, p. 81

A systematic review was conducted to investigate whether bilingualism has a protective effect against cognitive decline in aging and can protect against dementia. We searched the Medline, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ERIC databases with a cut-off date of 31 March 2019, thereby following the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) protocol....