Atención y funciones ejecutivas en la fibromialgia
- Maite Garolera Freixa Director
- Josep Pifarré Director
Universidade de defensa: Universitat de Lleida
Fecha de defensa: 22 de setembro de 2017
- María Ángeles Jurado Luque Presidente/a
- Francisco Abella Pons Secretario/a
- Olga Bruna Rabassa Vogal
Tipo: Tese
Resumo
The aim of this thesis was to study the neuropsychological performance in women with fibromyalgia (FM), and its relation with their cognitive complaints and with symptoms associated to the disease. We included 110 women with FM, 33 women with Depressive Disorder without FM and 50 healthy controls, from 35 to 55 years. 82.9% of patients with FM reported cognitive complaints. Depressive symptoms, impairment in working memory and disability in activities of daily living were predictive variables of cognitive complaints. Patients with FM showed a pattern of cognitive dysfunction in the attentional and executive domains, with impairment in short-term memory, working memory, sustained attention, impulsivity, selective attention, information processing speed, inhibition and cognitive flexibility. A large part of this impairment are due to the effects of depression, although another part is explained by the effects of FM or by the interaction of FM with depression.