Natalia Chunga

ORCID: 0000-0001-8450-7121
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Research Areas
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Neurological and metabolic disorders
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Health and Medical Education
  • Inflammatory Myopathies and Dermatomyositis
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Microscopic Colitis
  • Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Global Health and Surgery
  • Bone and Joint Diseases
  • Diverticular Disease and Complications
  • Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Cerebrovascular and genetic disorders

University of Rochester
2023-2024

Brigham and Women's Hospital
2018-2022

Harvard University
2018-2022

University of Rochester Medical Center
2019-2022

Daniel Alcides Carrión National University
2017-2018

Progress in neurodevelopmental brain research has been achieved through the use of animal models. Such models not only help understanding biological changes that govern development, maturation and aging, but are also essential for identifying possible mechanisms age-related chronic disorders, to evaluate interventions with potential relevance human disease. Genetic relationship rhesus monkeys humans makes those animals a great candidate such With typical lifespan 25 years, they undergo...

10.1093/cercor/bhy056 article EN Cerebral Cortex 2018-04-18

A woman in her 70s presented with approximately 2 years of sudden-onset gait and cognitive problems. She had been diagnosed normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) underwent ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) placement 1 year prior. Before VPS placement, brain imaging showed ventriculomegaly chronic infarction the right putamen claustrum. lumbar drain trial resulted modest improvement dysfunction. for suspected NPH, but symptoms remained unchanged. Examination revealed mild impairment, left-sided...

10.1136/bcr-2024-259957 article EN BMJ Case Reports 2024-08-01

Medical education has drastically transformed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures such as adopting telemedicine visits, minimizing number of trainees on service, discontinuing external rotations, and converting in-person to online didactics have been broadly swiftly implemented. While these innovations promoted greater interconnectivity amongst institutions made continuing medical possible, international exchange programs in are still largely disrupted. In response changing guidelines...

10.5334/aogh.3663 article EN cc-by Annals of Global Health 2022-07-08

Objective To determine the effect of a Best Practice Advisory (BPA) on ordering and administration contraindicated dopamine blocking agents (DBA) to hospitalized patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) related disorders. Background Patients PD are more likely require hospitalization at increased risk complications. Administration DBA contributes worsened outcomes in this patient population. Electronic medical record (EMR) warnings (also referred as BPA) have been proposed way prevent...

10.3389/fnagi.2023.1276761 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2023-12-18

Las miopatías inflamatorias idiopáticas (MII) son un grupo de enfermedades autoinmunes crónicas que afectan principalmente a los músculos proximales. Los tipos más comunes dermatomiositis (DM), polimiositis (PM), miopatía autoinmune necrotizante y miositis por cuerpos inclusión. Se identifican forma única su presentación clínica consiste en manifestaciones musculares extramusculares, sus alteraciones miopáticas el electromiograma la elevación las enzimas musculares. Sin embargo, biopsia...

10.15381/anales.803.16274 article ES cc-by-nc-sa Anales de la Facultad de Medicina 2019-10-10

Objetivo: Determinar si la localizacion y el tamano de los adenomas colon se asocian con presencia displasia alto grado en pacientes un hospital peruano. Materiales Metodos: Se realizo estudio trasversal mediante revision de informes colonoscopias anos 2014-2015 del Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrion, incluyendose polipos de mayores 18 anos; excluyendose cancer colon, antecedente cirugia oncologica, enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal poliposis (6 o mas). extrajeron datos (colon...

10.47892/rgp.2017.374.832 article ES Revista de Gastroenterología del Perú 2017-01-10

Evidence for age related brain white matter (WM) abnormalities in schizophrenia (SZ) has been observed using MRI, and interpreted by various studies as reflecting either developmental, maturational and/or degenerative pathology. Such conflicting findings, mostly due to lack of longitudinal data statistical power, have hindered consensus on patterns trajectories dysfunction SZ. ‘Big Data’ provides a new powerful means identify subtle across the course We accumulated processed, what we believe...

10.1093/schbul/sbz021.225 article EN Schizophrenia Bulletin 2019-04-01
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