Preventing Alzheimer’s disease has ceased to be a theoretical aspiration and has become a scientific, clinical, and social obligation. For decades, Alzheimer’s has been viewed with a mixture of resignation and fatalism, as if its onset were an inexorable part of aging. However, this narrative is no longer compatible with current knowledge. Today we know that a significant proportion of the risk of cognitive decline and dementia is linked to modifiable factors, and that intervening on these factors can delay or prevent a significant number of cases. This reality takes on even greater urgency when we consider that the number of people with dementia worldwide could rise from 57.4 million in 2019 to more than 150 million in 2050.
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Estado actual de la Esclerosis Múltiple en Ecuador. Current Status of Multiple Sclerosis in Ecuador.
Revistas Predatorias, Que Son y Como Evitarlas. Predatory Journals: What They Are And How To Avoid Them.
The progress of humanity goes hand in hand with the production of new scientific knowledge. To carry out an investigation has as its ultimate purpose to fill an information gap in the endless and dynamic universe of knowledge. It is said that unpublished information is non-existent information and this assertion is the one that provokes a frenzy within the researchers to look for opportunities to publish their results. This growing demand becomes an opportunity for those who seek to profit from the needs of teachers, researchers, students and professionals in general who try to publish their results every day.
It is currently estimated that there are more than 10,000 journals that seek to publish results in exchange for money, with a non-existent or a very brief peer review, known as predatory journals. They multiply exponentially and endanger the credibility of the science worldwide. In this brief editorial we seek to explain what predatory journals are, how to identify them and how to avoid them within the context of scientific production in the medical field.
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Adicciones Comportamentales e Interdicción por Disipación
La dinámica del mundo actual hace que la ansiedad cause estragos, disfrazándose de múltiples propuestas sintomáticas entre las cuales, las adicciones comportamentales
o conductuales están adquiriendo la mayor tasa de crecimiento con edades de inicio cada vez más tempranas.
En la psiquiatría moderna (DSM-5) estas se categorizan entre las patologías de los Trastornos Adictivos a sustancias y no relacionados con sustancias (adicciones) y el Trastorno Obsesivo Compulsivo y trastornos relacionados (conductas compulsivas), siendo conceptualmente actividades humanas diversas, a menudo placenteras y sin relación con la ingestión de sustancias químicas.
