Nerea Gascón, Inmaculada Baixauli, Carmen Moret-Tatay, Nuria Senent
{"title":"[Utility of LUI-Spanish for evaluating pragmatics in children with autism spectrum disorder].","authors":"Nerea Gascón, Inmaculada Baixauli, Carmen Moret-Tatay, Nuria Senent","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Pragmatics plays a crucial role in learning and socio-emotional adaptation and it is a core area of impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The aim of this study is to examine the discriminant validity of the Spanish adaptation of the Language Use Inventory (LUI-Spanish), designed to assess pragmatic skills in children.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>The study included 40 children diagnosed with ASD and 40 typically developing (TD) children, aged between 24 and 42 months. The LUISpanish, a parent-report measure of pragmatic language, was used to assess communication through gestures, words and sentences. The Mann-Whitney U test was employed for group comparisons.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Statistically significant differences were found between the ASD and TD groups in most of the LUI scales, except for Part 1 and the scales included. The TD group consistently scored higher, with large effect sizes. The instrument demonstrates both theoretical and practical relevance for assessing early pragmatic skills and guiding appropriate interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":18419,"journal":{"name":"Medicina-buenos Aires","volume":"85 Suppl 1 ","pages":"9-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marta Martinez-Morga, Salvador J Martinez, Daniel Garrigos, Salvador Martínez
{"title":"[Future of intelligence: natural brain, artificial brain].","authors":"Marta Martinez-Morga, Salvador J Martinez, Daniel Garrigos, Salvador Martínez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced significantly in recent decades, impacting sectors such as medicine, education, and entertainment. In contrast, natural intelligence (NI) is the result of over a billion years of evolution, culminating in the Homo sapiens brain approximately one hundred thousand years ago. This development has enabled the creation of a culture of accumulated knowledge, facilitating technological and scientific advancements. The combination of AI and NI holds the promise of overcoming cognitive limitations and addressing complex problems, provided it is managed ethically. Key areas of this integration include cognitive augmentation, health, education, resolution of global challenges, redefinition of NI boundaries, and subsequent ethical challenges. While both NI and AI share learning and adaptation capabilities, human intelligence is distinguished by consciousness, emotion, and creativity, facets that AI has yet to fully replicate. The future of this interaction will depend on proper management that allows for the coexistence and mutual benefit of humans and machines.</p>","PeriodicalId":18419,"journal":{"name":"Medicina-buenos Aires","volume":"85 Suppl 1 ","pages":"48-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Inflexibility in autism spectrum disorder].","authors":"Juan Martos Pérez, María Llorente Comí","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper we have tried to give an overview of the way in which inflexibility manifests itself in people with ASD, the physiological and psychological factors that can trigger it, as well as the main reasons behind those behaviours that fall under the term inflexibility. We have also provided some guidelines on intervention with the aim of helping to reconsider and guide the approach to this type of behaviour, always based on respect and understanding.</p>","PeriodicalId":18419,"journal":{"name":"Medicina-buenos Aires","volume":"85 Suppl 1 ","pages":"57-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luna Maddalon, Maria Eleonora Minissi, Mariano Alcañiz
{"title":"[Early diagnosis of ASD using biomarkers: a narrative review].","authors":"Luna Maddalon, Maria Eleonora Minissi, Mariano Alcañiz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) encompasses a range of neurodevelopmental conditions characterized by social challenges, repetitive behaviors, and communication difficulties. While diagnosis traditionally relies on behavioral observations, new biomedical approaches, such as the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), aim to identify biomarkers that integrate genetic, neural, and behavioral factors. Notable biomarkers include genetic variants, molecular alterations such as abnormal neurotransmitter levels, and markers associated with immune dysfunction. Brain organoids have also enabled the investigation of specific neural mechanisms. In neuroimaging, techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) have identified atypical connectivity patterns in infants at high risk for ASD. Similarly, measures like electroencephalography (EEG) and eye tracking have revealed differences in visual attention and brain activity, while physiological indicators such as electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate variability (HRV) reflect sensory and autonomic dysfunctions. The use of digital biomarkers is rapidly growing, with devices like tablets and virtual reality capturing data on children's interactions. Analyzed using artificial intelligence, these data show promise for improving early ASD detection, though further validation is needed. Integrating traditional and digital approaches is essential for advancing diagnosis and intervention strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":18419,"journal":{"name":"Medicina-buenos Aires","volume":"85 Suppl 1 ","pages":"3-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachitha P Jadala, Hali Temkin, Kerri L Daniel, Cesar A Soutullo
{"title":"[Treatment adherence for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the ChAMP UT-Health Houston Program].","authors":"Rachitha P Jadala, Hali Temkin, Kerri L Daniel, Cesar A Soutullo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>ADHD has a safe and effective treatment, but treatment adherence is often low. Several factors contribute to this low adherence, some of which are modifiable.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a literature review of recent studies on medication adherence in children and adolescents with ADHD. We gathered data on ADHD treatment adherence from our clinic in the ADHD Program and the Child and Adolescent Mood Disorders Program (ChAMP) at the University of Texas Health-Houston Program. We analyzed factors related to medication adherence, such as patient age, sex, prescription type, release formula, and their association with adherence in 117 patients with ADHD who were prescribed stimulant or nonstimulant medications.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found publications identifying factors influencing medication adherence, including disorder characteristics, the patient, the healthcare system, socioeconomic factors, the medication itself, and the environment. Factors that can improve adherence include: knowledge about ADHD, the medication, its benefits, and potential side effects; simple, once-daily extendedrelease medication regimens; patients younger than 12 years old; female sex; reduced barriers to accessing healthcare; and a positive, proactive attitude of parents toward ADHD and medication use.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Optimizing adherence and long-term prognosis of ADHD is achieved by reinforcing factors that increase adherence and reducing biases and lack of knowledge about ADHD.</p>","PeriodicalId":18419,"journal":{"name":"Medicina-buenos Aires","volume":"85 Suppl 1 ","pages":"82-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): a new approach from the DSM-5-TR and its management].","authors":"Amaia Hervás","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD) can be confused with each other but can also occur together, presenting a more severe clinical picture with a worse response to typical OCD treatment.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We review the current situation on the topic, the specific characteristics of both disorders, the implication of the changes to the DSM-5-TR, their evaluation and approach.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>ASD-OCD comorbidity presents atypicalities that require a detailed evaluation and adapted treatments.</p>","PeriodicalId":18419,"journal":{"name":"Medicina-buenos Aires","volume":"85 Suppl 1 ","pages":"36-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Autism and burnout].","authors":"Víctor Ruggieri","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a neurobiological basis characterized by deficits in social cognition and communication, restricted interests and stereotyped behaviors. It is frequently associated with sensory dysfunctions, other neurodevelopmental disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, epilepsy and/or sleep disorders. This condition will accompany people throughout their lives, which will generate various needs for support and treatments. This spectrum of social, cognitive, communication, neuropsychiatric and clinical dysfunctions means that people with autism are subjected to great social pressure to meet expectations and relate appropriately, which can lead to great fatigue with consequences such as exhaustion (burnout) that can affect their physical and mental health and increase social withdrawal. Additionally, exhaustion can occur in the family, teachers and therapists with serious commitment to physical and mental health and in the workplace. Although burnout is a very present topic in the autistic community, it is rarely addressed in professional settings. In this paper I will address burnout in autistic people, their families, teachers and professionals by analyzing its triggers, clinical manifestations and prevention or mitigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":18419,"journal":{"name":"Medicina-buenos Aires","volume":"85 Suppl 1 ","pages":"63-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Heritability in neurodevelopmental disorders].","authors":"Jesús Eirís-Puñal, E Monteagudo-Saavedra","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) share two main characteristics: their high comorbidity between them and other processes - psychiatric disorders and epilepsy - and their high heritability, with a gap between that extracted through family studies (familial heritability, 0.66) and that obtained through genetic studies (genetic heritability, 0.19). There is a strong genetic correlation between NDD and different behavioral disorders, with a familial genetic correlation coefficient estimated at 0.62, suggesting a shared genetic load that encompasses these processes as well as others such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or depression. Missing heritability, mutational load and genetic vulnerability are important concepts for understanding the complex interactions between different NDD and their comorbidities, as well as for illustrating the discrepancy between genetic and familial heritability figures. Genetic vulnerability determines which genes are more likely to cause diseases when mutated; Mutational load accumulates the genetic effects that influence the phenotypic expression of a disorder, and the interaction between different variants (epistasis) and their accumulation, including common variants, can amplify the probability of developing a disorder. Missing heritability illustrates the proportion of heritability not explained by identified genetic variants. Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identify common variants associated with diseases, these usually explain only a small part of the total genetic risk. This gap can be related to different factors, including rare variants present in non-coding regions, epigenetic factors that regulate vulnerable genes, and complex interactions between genes.</p>","PeriodicalId":18419,"journal":{"name":"Medicina-buenos Aires","volume":"85 Suppl 1 ","pages":"22-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Germán Casas, Carolina García S, Damaris Cote Martínez
{"title":"[The most serious comorbidities of ADHD: a worrying review].","authors":"Germán Casas, Carolina García S, Damaris Cote Martínez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder in children and adolescents, and it is frequently associated with a range of comorbidities. However, an analysis of critical factors -such as mortality, legal issues, access to care, and academic or occupational impairment- reveals that the most serious comorbidities of ADHD are primarily psychiatric in nature. These include depression, suicidal behaviors, substance use disorders, legal problems, and personality disorders, particularly borderline and antisocial personalities. These comorbid conditions share core features, including difficulties with self-regulation, impulsivity and repetitive behaviors. They also exhibit overlapping neurological and genetic substrates, as well as common environmental risk factors. A review of the current literature underscores the significant morbidity and adverse outcomes associated with ADHD when these comorbidities are present. Given the complexity and severity of these conditions, it is crucial for clinicians working with children and adolescents, to be vigilant about monitoring their appearance. Early recognition and intervention may help mitigate the risk of developing these associated psychiatric disorders and their long-term consequences. Furthermore, evidence suggests that timely and appropriate treatment of ADHD can play a protective role in preventing the onset of these comorbid conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":18419,"journal":{"name":"Medicina-buenos Aires","volume":"85 Suppl 1 ","pages":"16-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María Ángeles Idiazábal Alecha, Montserrat Palau Baduell
{"title":"[Neurophysiological approach to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder].","authors":"María Ángeles Idiazábal Alecha, Montserrat Palau Baduell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder in childhood. Its diagnosis and treatment are complex due to its clinical heterogeneity and comorbid pathologies, such as epilepsy and sleep disorders, which affect its evolution and management. Studies such as electroencephalogram (EEG), quantified EEG and event related potentials (ERP) provide key neurophysiological information to better understand this disorder. EEG allows the identification of abnormal patterns such as increased frontal theta activity and increased the theta/beta ratio, which are associated with problems with attention and inhibitory control. Comorbidity between epilepsy and ADHD is high. Patients with ADHD are more likely to present subclinical interictal discharges. EEG allows us to differentiate between ADHD and epilepsy symptoms, such as typical absences, which can be confused with inattention, as well as detect the presence of interictal epileptiform discharges, improving diagnosis and treatment. ERP, such as P300, evaluate cognitive functions such as attention, working memory and inhibitory control, providing information for the diagnosis, developmental monitoring and treatment of ADHD. In parallel, sleep studies using polysomnography reveal a high prevalence of sleep disorders such as respiratory disorders and decreased REM sleep, exacerbating ADHD symptoms. Neurophysiological studies allow a more precise approach to ADHD, integrating objective diagnoses and personalized treatments that improve clinical results and long-term prognosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":18419,"journal":{"name":"Medicina-buenos Aires","volume":"85 Suppl 1 ","pages":"42-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}