DANIEL FUENTES MOREIRA
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conferenceObject Correlation between novelty-seeking and harm-avoidance with depression and anxiety in Parkinson's disease(2012) FONOFF, F. M. C.; FONOFF, E. T.; QUARANTA, T.; BARBOSA, E. R.; TEIXEIRA, M. J.; FUENTES, D.Background: Lower novelty-seeking (NS) and higher harm-avoidance (HA) are characteristics often found in depressive patients. Depression is a comorbidity often found in PD patients. However, recent studies debate whether depressive-like personality traits in PD patients result from dopaminergic degeneration or are related to depression symptoms present in PD. Methods: 61 advanced PD patients and 42 healthy volunteers (HV) were submitted to personality assessment through Temperament and Character Inventory by Cloninger and to depressive and anxiety symptoms assessment through Hamilton Scales for Anxiety (Ham-A) and Depression (Ham-D). Results: PD group showed NS1 significantly lower 4,96 (SD: 2,05) and higher HA4 4,96 (SD: 1,72) than HV. However, PD group and HV did not differ significantly in Anxiety and Depression scores. Conclusions: The present data suggest that depression is not responsible for depressive-like features in PD. Following this reasoning, we can state that these personality traits can be understood independently and, therefore, as part of the motor treatment of the PD patients, a clinical follow-up of the personality traits is necessary. Further studies should investigate those personality traits in PD patients after DBS.conferenceObject Improvement of obsessive-compulsive symptoms after bilateral subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson's disease(2015) FONOFF, F. M. C.; FONOFF, E. T.; BARBOSA, E. R.; MACHADO, R. B.; CURY, R. G.; SANTOS, M. G. G. dos; TEIXEIRA, M. J.; FUENTES, D.conferenceObject DECISION MAKING IN ROLANDIC EPILEPSY(2013) LUNARDI, L.; FUENTES, D.; GUIMARAES, C.; BOSCARIOL, M.; MANREZA, M. L.; MIZIARA, C.; GUERREIRO, M.Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the decision-making style in children with rolandic epilepsy (RE) and compare their performance with healthy children taking into account clinical variables of epilepsy. Method: We evaluated 42 children, 17 with RE (RE Group) and 25 healthy controls (Control Group). All children were assessed with the Iowa Gabling Task (IGT), the most used instrument to evaluate the decision-making style, and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-III) to investigate the intellectual level (estimated IQ). The clinical variables of epilepsy were: age of seizure onset and remission, type of seizure (partial vs. generalized), use of AED (none, monotherapy or polytherapy), and seizure lateralization (right, left, and bilateral). Results: No significant differences were found between the two groups. However, when analysing the RE group, we observed that the later the onset of epilepsy, the best style of decision making presented (p = 0.04). The same was true when comparing the intellectual level of the RE group: the higher the IQ, the better the decision-making style (p = 0.02). Conclusion: We conclude that although RE is known as a benign entity, difficulty in decision-making ability may be observed. More studies are necessary to corroborate our findings.