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An educational intervention on the risk perception of pesticides exposure and organophosphate metabolites urinary concentrations in rural school children in Maule Region, Chile
Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Bradman, Asa; Steenland, Kyle; Zúñiga-Venegas, Liliana A.; Calafat, Antonia M.; Ospina, Maria; Iglesias, Verónica; Muñoz, María Pía; Buralli, Rafael J.; Fredes-Monsalve, Claudio; Gutiérrez-Jara, Juan P. (2019)Background: Organophosphate (OP) pesticides can be hazardous to human health if not applied with appropriate precautions. There is evidence in the Maule region of Chile that rural schoolchildren are exposed to OP ...
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Aspectos éticos del uso de identificadores biométricos
La biometría ha tenido una rápida expansión como tecnología, siendo cada vez más accesible para el público general, prestando utilidad a los gobiernos y a la sociedad en el manejo de la seguridad ciudadana. Se aplica ya ...
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Aspectos legales y bioéticos de intervenciones e investigaciones en personas con discapacidad intelectual en Chile
Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris (2014)El trabajo presenta una revisión y discusión de los aspectos legales y éticos que protegen a los sujetos con discapacidad intelectual en la participación de investigaciones o intervenciones terapéuticas en Chile, además ...
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Attentional networks and intellectual performance in children: preliminary evidence from ERPs
Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Saracini, Chiara; Morgado-Gallardo, Katherine; Morales, Patricia; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa (2018) -
Bioética y justicia ambiental: el caso de presencia de plaguicidas en escolares de comunidades rurales
Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris (2019)Una serie de estudios evidencian las consecuencias en la salud de las personas expuestas a plaguicidas, ya sea por la actividad laboral como por vivir o estudiar cerca de predios agrícolas. La exposición ocupacional a una ...
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Chronic exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides and neuropsychological functioning in farm workers: A review
Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Iglesias, Verónica; Muñoz, María Pía; Cornejo-Araya, Claudia; Achu-Peralta, Eduardo; Baumert, Brittney; Hanchey, Arianna; Concha, Carlos; Brito, Ana María; Villalobos, Marcos (2016)Background: Previous studies have demonstrated that acute poisoning from exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides in agricultural workers causes adverse health effects. However, neuropsychological and cognitive effects ...
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Cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation (ccPAS) over premotor-motor areas affects local circuitries in the human motor cortex via Hebbian plasticity
Turrini, Sonia; Fiori, Francesca; Chiappini, Emilio; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Santarnecchi, Emiliano; Avenanti, Alessio (2023)Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation (ccPAS) can strengthen connectivity between the ventral premotor cortex (PMv) and the primary motor cortex ...
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Cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation highlights asymmetrical communication between rostral premotor cortices and primary motor cortex
Bevacqua, Naomi; Turrini, Sonia; Fiori, Francesca; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Candidi, Matteo; Avenanti, Alessio (2024) -
Estudios en visión ciega (Blindsight): Aportes fundamentales en la neurociencia y su proyección hasta nuestros días
Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa (2015)Se denomina visión ciega (Blindsight) al fenómeno tradicionalmente estudiado en pacientes con lesiones en su córtex visual primario (V1), quienes logran discriminar estímulos visuales pese a no tener consciencia de haberlos ...
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Evaluación de procedimentos para el diagnóstico de discapacidad intelectual en estudiantes con discapacidades múltiples
Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris (2017)El diagnóstico de la capacidad intelectual de estudiantes con más de una discapacidad, es compleja. El objetivo del estudio consistió en evaluar los procedimientos e instrumentos para el diagnóstico de discapacidad intelectual ...
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Exposición a organofosforados y desempeño cognitivo en escolares rurales chilenos: Un estudio exploratorio
Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Iglesias, Verónica; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris (2011)Objetivo: evaluar la presencia de metabolitos organofosforados en la orina de escolares rurales y estimar la asociación con el desempeño cognitivo. Metodología: estudio exploratorio de diseño transversal. Se midió en 25 ...
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Exposición a plaguicidas en Chile y salud poblacional. Urgencia para la toma de decisiones
Zúñiga-Venegas, Liliana A.; Saracini, Chiara; Pancetti, Floria; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Foerster, Claudia; Cortés, Sandra (2021)In the last 25 years, Chile has had an expanding role as an agro-export country in the global economy, with efficient rates of productivity in the region, based on the technological development of agriculture, with of large ...
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Exposición a plaguicidas organofosforados y polineuropatía periférica en trabajadores de la Región del Maule, Chile
Grillo, Angela; Achu-Peralta, Eduardo; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris (2018)Fundamentos. Los plaguicidas organofosforados (OP) se usan de manera masiva, por su bajo costo y por su baja persistencia, en el medio ambiente y su alta efectividad en el control de plagas de insectos, sin embargo, los ...
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Exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides and health conditions in agricultural and non-agricultural workers from Maule, Chile
Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Iglesias, Verónica; Levy, Karen; Muñoz, María Pía; Achu-Peralta, Eduardo; Cornejo-Araya, Claudia; Concha, Carlos; Brito, Ana María; Villalobos, Marcos (2017)The objective was to evaluate the characteristics of exposure to OP pesticides and health status in Chilean farm workers from the Maule Region. An occupational health questionnaire was administered in 207 agricultural and ...
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Health effects of pesticide exposure in latin american and the caribbean populations: a scoping review
Zúñiga-Venegas, Liliana A.; Hyland, Carly; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Quiros-Alcala, Lesliam; Butinof, Mariana; Junqueira Buralli, Rafael; Cardenas, Andres; Fernández, Ricardo Antonio; Foerster, Claudia; Gouveia, Nelson; Gutiérrez-Jara, Juan P.; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Muñoz, María Pía; Ramirez, Muriel; Smith, Anna R; Tirado, Noemi; Wendel de Joode, Berna van; Calaf, Gloria M; Handal, Alexis J; Soares da Silva, Agnes; Cortés, Sandra; Mora, Ana Maria (2022)Background: Multiple epidemiological studies have shown that exposure to pesticides is associated with adverse health outcomes. However, the literature on pesticide-related health effects in the Latin American and the ...
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Laboratory of the Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurosciences Research Center of Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile
Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Saracini, Chiara; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Mendez‑Bustos, Pablo; Mora, Marco (2018)The Laboratory of the Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurosciences Research Center (CINPSI Neurocog), located in the “Technological Park” building of the Catholic University of Maule (Universidad Católica del Maule, UCM) ...
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Levels of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/furans (PCDD/Fs) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (DL-PCBs) in human breast milk in Chile: A pilot study
Foerster, Claudia; Zúñiga-Venegas, Liliana A.; Enríquez, Pedro; Rojas, Jacqueline; Zamora, Claudia; Muñoz, Ximena; Pancetti, Floria; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Saracini, Chiara; Salas, Claudio; Cortés, Sandra (2021)Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that resist biochemical degradation, moving long distances across the atmosphere before deposition occurs. Our goal was to provide up-to-date data on the levels ...
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Longitudinal exposure to pyrethroids (3-PBA and trans-DCCA) and 2,4-D herbicide in rural schoolchildren of Maule region, Chile
Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Gutiérrez-Jara, Juan P.; Buralli, Rafael J.; Zúñiga-Venegas, Liliana A.; Muñoz, María Pía; Vilches-Ponce, Karina; Iglesias, Verónica (2020)Background: Several studies showed that early exposure to pesticides affects the development and health of children. In Maule, there is previous evidence of the high exposure to organophosphate pesticides (OP) of schoolchildren. ...
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Neurobehavioral, neuromotor, and neurocognitive effects in agricultural workers and their children exposed to pyrethroid pesticides: a review
Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa (2021)In recent years, pyrethroids have emerged as a less toxic alternative to eliminate insect pests. However, some animal studies and studies with children show that these pesticides are toxic and lead to neurobehavioral effects ...
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Neurodevelopmental effects in children associated with exposure to organophosphate pesticides: A systematic review
Muñoz-Quezada, María Teresa; Lucero-Mondaca, Boris; Barr, Dana B.; Steenland, Kyle; Levy, Karen; Barry Ryan, P.; Iglesias, Verónica; Alvarado, Sergio; Concha, Carlos; Rojas, Evelyn (2013)Many studies have investigated the neurodevelopmental effects of prenatal and early childhood exposures to organophosphate (OP) pesticides among children, but they have not been collectively evaluated. The aim of the ...