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Cognitive plasticity, learning potential, and rehabilitation potential are new constructs, which are understood as expressions of neural plasticity. They are assessed through dynamic assessment (or testing-the-limits), using experimental test-training-posttest, a form of evaluation closely related to functional or stress testing in medicine. This research strategy has been used for increasing knowledge about several target populations with intellectual handicaps (socially mentally retarded, brain-impaired, schizophrenia patients, etc.), including older people whose fluid intellectual capacity has declined. Recently, cognitive plasticity has been applied to the study of dementia ( Baltes & Baltes, 1997 ), but there are very few other studies in this area. The basic objective of this research program is to test the extent to which learning potential can be a predictor of the course of dementia. The first specific objective of the research is to test whether learning can discriminate healthy people from those diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and with Alzheimer's Disease (AD). In order to assess cognitive plasticity, a Battery of Learning Potential for Assessing Dementia (BEPAD) was developed, incorporating four tests for assessing visuo-spatial and verbal memory, executive function, and verbal fluency. Two hundred subjects participated in the study: 100 healthy elderly, 50 diagnosed with MCI and 50 with AD. All learning strategies included in the four tests making up the BEPAD appear to be effective: All three groups improved their performance in visual memory, verbal learning, and executive function.

When in 1966 the United Nations stated in its International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the ideal of a free human being with respect to his privacy through the prohibition of arbitrary interference in his private life, it was not possible to imagine the impact of global unlimited connectivity, autonomy of new information technologies, the development of huge interconnected databases, the independent and unrestricted circulation of data, which have led to ethical and legal questions arising from this to treat personal and health data. ; Cuando en el año 1966 Naciones Unidas planteaba en su Declaración Internacional de los Derechos Civiles y Políticos, el ideal de un ser humano libre con respeto a su intimidad a través de la prohibición de injerencias arbitrarias en su vida privada, no era posible imaginar el impacto global que tendría la irrupción de una conectividad casi ilimitada, la autonomía de las nuevas tecnologías de la información, el desarrollo de enormes bases de datos interconectadas, la circulación independiente e irrestricta de datos, que han generado interrogantes éticos y jurídicos derivados de esta forma de tratar los datos personales y de salud.

[Resumen] Cuando en el año 1966 Naciones Unidas planteaba en su Declaración Internacional de los Derechos Civiles y Políticos, el ideal de un ser humano libre con respeto a su intimidad a través de la prohibición de injerencias arbitrarias en su vida privada, no era posible imaginar el impacto global que tendría la irrupción de una conectividad casi ilimitada, la autonomía de las nuevas tecnologías de la información, el desarrollo de enormes bases de datos interconectadas, la circulación independiente e irrestricta de datos, que han generado interrogantes éticos y jurídicos derivados de esta forma de tratar los datos personales y de salud. ; [Abstract] When in 1966 the United Nations stated in its International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the ideal of a free human being with respect to his privacy through the prohibition of arbitrary interference in his private life, it was not possible to imagine the impact of global unlimited connectivity, autonomy of new information technologies, the development of huge interconnected databases, the independent and unrestricted circulation of data, which have led to ethical and legal questions arising from this to treat personal and health data