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Difficulties in detecting cognitive impairment and dementia stand out, conditions highly prevalent at 58.80% and 8.5% respectively, according to studies conducted in Latin America. These difficulties are exacerbated by the scarcity of validated and standardized cognitive assessment instruments for this age group. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has proven to be a useful tool for the early detection of dementia, evaluating eight domains of cognitive functions, including: visu‐ ospatial and executive function, naming, memory, attention, language, abstraction, and orientation. This study aims to standardize the Spanish version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) for the elderly population in Lima, addressing the critical need for culturally and demographically adapted cognitive evaluation tools in Peru. The test was administered to 338 ambulatory and home‐ bound adults over 60 years old from three institutions: San Miguel District Municipality, San José Obrero Polyclinic in Barranco, and EDMECON in Surco. The study provides normative data and cut‐off scores for the Peruvian elderly population, facilitating the clinical application of the MoCA in Peru and potentially other Spanish‐speaking countries. Notably, the study found low perfor‐ mance on the delayed recall test and high scores on orientation tasks, indicating specific cognitive strengths and weaknesses within the sample. Significant influences from age and education were found, with education emerging as a stronger predictor of cognitive performance than age. We dis‐ cuss our findings in relation to the use of appropriate cutoff points and considerations of cultural sensitivity relevant to the Peruvian context.
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In 2022, more than seventeen thousand cases of violence against women were perpetrated in Perú (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2021). The repetition of traumatic events can generate self-concept problems and affective dysregulation, turning into a more pervasive clinical condition: Complex PTSD (CPTSD) (Jowett et al., 2020). Nevertheless, the specific neural, cognitive and affective characteristics of CPTSD in women are unclear. Following the RDoC framework for psychopathology research (Kozac & Cuthbert, 2016), we aim at contributing to the development of a neurocomputational profile of women with CPTSD using behavioral, electrophysiological and self report measurements. To achieve this, we will recruit 134 women between 18 and 55 years old with CPTSD symptomatology assessed by the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) and the Frequency of Traumatic Events Scale (LEC), and 100 healthy controls. Three behavioral tasks will be examined: a two bandit task computationally modeled with Reinforcement Learning algorithms, an Auditory Oddball Task to evaluate neural Event-Related Potentials (ERP) and a 3D Body Image Scale. Furthermore, we will explore the relationships of Sexual Subjectivity, Emotional Dysregulation, Hallucinations, Body Awareness and Eating Disorder Symptomatology with CPTSD symptomatology and the behavioral tasks results. We expect to contribute empirically and theoretically to the evaluation and prediction of treatment response in women who suffered violence. Particularly, we expect to contribute to the establishment of boundaries of CPTSD with other diagnoses, the identification of CPTSD subtypes and the development of treatment strategies. This is critical to improve the well-being of women who suffered violence and diminish the economic impact of violence against women in society.
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