Actually there exists an increasing demand in relation to the neuropsychological explorations in the beginning stages of cognitive impairment due to the highest sensitization of general population to ...

The progressive ageing of population, especially relevant in the last years, will keep going on and the number of elderly will become very considerable in the next decades. This situation makes necessary ...

Comunicació presentada a la Fourth Biennial International Conference World Federation of Associations for Teacher Education (Barcelona : 2016)

Recently, some authors suggested that many unilateral actions (e.g. jumping and changes of direction) a team sport player is required to perform in practice or match occur not only in the vertical ...

Performance analysis appears to be widely accepted by players, coaches and sports scientists as useful feedback to achieve better results on the coaching process (Liu, Hopkins, & Gómez, 2016). Although ...

Ponència presentada a les IV Jornades d’Actualització en Envelliment i Demències, Barcelona, 16 de novembre de 2012

Physical fitness is a measure of the body's ability to perform physical activity and exercise, thus providing a valuable indicator of health (Tomkinson, Carver, et al., 2017). Cardiorespiratory endurance ...

The increase of life expectancy in subjects with Down syndrome (SD) arises many questions about the aging process, giving the early onset and the hight probability of developing cognitive impairment. ...

Self-esteem is defined as a “positive or negative orientation toward oneself” or “a feeling of self-appreciation” (Rosenberg, 1965). In AIS literature, there are contrasting results about the relation ...

The lack of physical activity in children has become a serious problem in our society in recent years. Physical inactivity is considered a risk factor for developing obesity and diseases such as diabetes ...