Desempeño neuropsicológico en pruebas de funciones ejecutivas y frontales en mujeres condenadas por delitos violentos en un centro penitenciario de Cartagena

The following research is based on forensic neuropsychology, applying interdisciplinary legal neuropsychology in order to contribute to the understanding of behavior with legal implications environments. The main objective was to describe the neuropsychological test performance and frontal executive functions in a sample of three women convicted of violent crimes (personal injury and criminal conspiracy), in the prison of San Diego Cartagena, with a methodology of descriptive quantitative approach, not experimental, multiple case design diagnostic evaluation, through the process of neuropsychological assessment of them in the included clinical observation, neuropsychological interview and neuropsychological battery of Executive Functions and Frontal (BANFE), to obtain performance characteristics in the roles of women who engage in this type of criminal behavior. It was concluded that there is a difference between performance on the functions associated with orbitomedial area among women who committed the crime of conspiracy to commit a crime (which includes actions such as murder, kidnapping and extortion) and convicted of personal injury, alterations in finding orbitomediales convictions for conspiracy.

• Autores: Arzuaga Calderón, Katerin; Jiménez Parodi, Marelvis Carolina
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad de San Buenaventura
• Repositorio: Repositorio USB
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.usb.edu.co:10819/3575
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10819/3575
• Palabra clave: Neuropsicología forense; Piscología jurídica; Funcionamiento frontal y ejecutivo; Alteraciones orbitofrontales; Delitos violentos; Mujeres condenadas; Forensic neuropsychology; Convicted women; Violent crimes; Orbitofrontal alterations; Operation front and executive; Tesis - psicología; Neuropsicología forense; Psicología jurídica; Mujeres violentas
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia