Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
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Soledad Ballesteros

Studies on Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group, Department of Basic Psychology II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain

Biography

Dr Soledad Ballesteros is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Department of Basic Psychology II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) where she developed and is directing a Master Degree in Gerontology and is leading the Consolidated Research Group Studies in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases. Her research interests focus on the cognitive neuroscience of ageing; cognitive, physical and social interventions in older adults; implicit and explicit memory processes in cognitively normal older adults and pathological ageing; cross-modal priming, and haptic and visual attentional and perceptual processing

Publications

Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Similar Memory and Executive Functions Impairments?

Alzheimer´s disease (AD) accounts for more than half of all the cases of dementia. T2DM is a highly prevalent chronic metabolic condition among older adults, and is considered a risk factor to develop AD and other types of dementia. Currently, the incidence of both, AD and type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a major public health problem in dev... Read More»

Soledad Ballesteros and Maria Teresa Redondo

Short Communication: J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 2017, 7:389

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0460.1000389

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