COLABORADORES DE LA REVISTA

Coordinadores del International Non Pharmacologica
Coordinadores del International Non Pharmacologica

Ruben Muñiz (1)

Ruben Muñiz Schwochert is the son of a nurse and a surgeon to whom he is deeply thankful. He is now an entrepreneur with a passion for applied research.

Early in his career, Mr. Muñiz gathered 11 years of experience in Marketing, Sales, Market Research and Advertising & Media while working as a salesperson, as a strategic planner in a multinational ad-agency and as a group product manager for international fast moving consumer goods.

Mr. Muñiz started his career as an entrepreneur 16 years ago, partially as a psychological experiment and partially as an outcome of a self financed study on caregiver needs. It was then that he started in the Alzheimer day care and nursing home industry.

In 1999 he founded the Maria Wolff Foundation which is named for his grandmother. It is an organization devoted to researching ways of improving the lives of people with dementia and those that care for them. Most of his time and efforts are now devoted to catalyze or direct research.

In 2007 he founded another company, now actively working to improve dementia care in nursing homes.

Publications:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS:

Muñiz R, Morillas N, Olazarán J, González MJ, Neira M, Perea M. Group management of dementia patients in a day-care center. International Psychogeriatrics 2000; 12 (Suppl 1): 367-372.

Olazarán J, Muñiz R, Reisberg R, Peña-Casanova J, del Ser T, Cruz-Jentoft AJ, Serrano P, Navarro E, García de la Rocha ML, Frank A, Galiano M, Fernández-Bullido Y, Serra JA, González-Salvador MT, Sevilla C. Benefits of cognitive-motor intervention in MCI and mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Neurology 2004; 63: 2348-2353.

Olazarán J, Muñiz R. Cognitive intervention in the initial stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Research and Practice in Alzheimer’s Disease 2006; 11: 376-80.

Olazarán J, Reisberg B, Clare L, Cruz I, Peña-Casanova J, del Ser T, Woods B, Beck C, Auer S, Lai C, Spector A, Fazio S, Bond J, Kivipelto M, Brodaty H, Rojo JM, Collins H, Teri L, Mittelman M, Orrell M, Feldman H, Muñiz R. Non-pharmacological Therapies in Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review of efficacy. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2010 in press

Muñiz R, Olazarán J, Poveda S, Lago P, Peña-Casanova J. NPT-ES: a measure of the experience of people with dementia during non-pharmacological interventions. Non Pharmacological Therapies in Dementia 2010 in press

León-Salas B, Olazarán J, Muñiz R, González-Salvador MA, Martínez-Martín P. Caregivers' estimation of patients' quality of life (QoL) in Alzheimer's disease (AD): An approach using the ADRQL. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 2010 Jun 21. [Epub ahead of print]

ARTICLES IN SPANISH:

Olazarán J, Muñiz R. El papel de los centros de día en el tratamiento de los trastornos neuroconductuales crónicos. Actualizaciones en Neurología, Neurociencias y Envejecimiento 2003; 1: 277-281.

Muñiz R, Olazarán J, Tárraga L, Boada M. Intervenciones no farmacológicas. Medicina Clínica (Monográfico) 2004; 5: 82-85.

Muñiz Schwochert R, Olazarán Rodríguez J. Terapias no farmacológicas: una nueva forma de tratar el Alzheimer. Crítica 2006; 932: 32-5.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Olazarán J, González Mª J, Amador B, Morillas N, Muñiz R. Recursos sociosanitarios para la atención a la demencia: hacia un modelo centrado en la enfermedad. En: Bermejo Pareja F, director. Aspectos familiares y sociales del paciente con demencia. Madrid: Díaz de Santos, 2004: 27-40.

Olazarán Rodríguez J, Muñiz Schwochert R. Estimulación cognitiva posible y recomendable. En: Martínez Lage JM, del Ser Quijano T, editores. Alzheimer 2004: la pragmática necesaria. Madrid: Aula Médica; 2004: 361-374.

Muñiz R, Olazarán J, Amador B, González MJ, Morillas N, Apesteguía L. La atención sociosanitaria de la demencia en la Comunidad de Madrid. En: Bermejo Pareja F, coordinador. Libro Blanco sobre la demencia y enfermedad de Alzheimer. Madrid: Siglo; 2005: 55-71.

Muñiz R, Olazarán J. Qué son las Terapias No Farmacológicas. Tratamientos y terapias no farmacológicas en la enfermedad de Alzheimer, AULA DIEZ 5ª Serie 2009

 

 

Javier Olazarán (2)

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

1989. Degree in Medicine and Surgery. University of Navarra, Spain. 1993. Degree in Neurology. University Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain. 1994. Clinical Research Fellowship in Behavioral Neurology. Columbia Presbiterian Medical Center, New York (Director: Dr. Richard Mayeux). 1997. Doctoral thesis ‘Validity of cognitive complaints in the elderly: data from a population-based study’. Thesis directors: Dr. Félix Bermejo and Dr. Jordi Peña-Casanova. Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

CURRENT POSITIONS

1995- Neurologist at Neurology Office of Hermanos Sangro Specialties Clinic. National System of Health, Madrid, Spain. 1995- Member of Maria Wolff Foundation (private foundation for the research and development of non-pharmacological therapies in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders). Madrid, Spain. 1999- Neurologist at the Behavioral Neurology Unit of Gregorio Marañón University Hospital. National System of Health, Madrid, Spain.

MOST RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

- Olazarán J, Jacobs DM, Stern Y. Comparative study of visual and verbal short-term memory in English and Spanish speakers: testing a linguistic hypothesis. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 1996; 2: 105-10.

- Muñiz R, Morillas N, Olazarán J, González MJ, Neira M, Perea M. Group management of dementia patients in a day-care center. International Psychogeriatrics 2000; 12 (Suppl 1): 367-372.

- Olazarán J, Trincado R, Bermejo F, Benito-León J, Díaz J, Vega S. Selective memory impairment on an adapted Mini-Mental State Examination increases risk of future dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2004; 19: 1173-1180.

- Olazarán J, Muñiz R, Reisberg R, Peña-Casanova J, del Ser T, Cruz-Jentoft AJ, Serrano P, Navarro E, García de la Rocha ML, Frank A, Galiano M, Fernández-Bullido Y, Serra JA, González-Salvador MT, Sevilla C. Benefits of cognitive-motor

intervention in MCI and mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Neurology 2004; 63: 2348-2353.

- Olazarán J, Muñiz R. Cognitive intervention in the initial stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Research and Practice in Alzheimer’s Disease 2006; 11: 376-380.

- Olazarán J, Cruz I, Benito-León J, Morales JM, Duque P, Rivera-Navarro J. Cognitive dysfunction in multiple sclerosis: methods and prevalence from the GEDMA Study. Eur Neurol 2009; 61: 87-93.

- Olazarán J, López-Longo J, Cruz I, Bittini A, Carreño L. Cognitive dysfunction in systemic Lupus erythematosus: prevalence and correlates. Eur Neurol 2009; 62: 49-55.

- Bermejo-Pareja F, Benito-Leon J, Vega S, Olazaran J, de Toledo M, Diaz-Guzman J, Sanchez-Sanchez F, Morales-Gonza Lez JM, Trincado R, Portera-Sanchez A, Roman GC. Consistency of clinical diagnosis of Dementia in NEDICES: a population-based longitudinal study in Spain. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 2009, 22: 246-255.

- Boada M, Ortiz P, Anaya F, Hernández I, Muñoz J, Núñez L, Olazarán J, Roca I, Cuberas G, Tárraga L, Buendía M, Pla RP, Ferrer I, Páez A. Amyloid-targeted therapeutics in Alzheimer’s disease: use of human albumin in plasma exchange as a novel approach for Aβ mobilization. Drug News & Perspectives 2009; 22: 325-339.

- León-Salas B, Olazarán J, Muñiz R, González-Salvador MA, Martínez-Martín P. Caregivers' estimation of patients' quality of life (QoL) in Alzheimer's disease (AD): An approach using the ADRQL. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 2010 Jun 21. [Epub ahead of print]

- Olazarán J, Prieto J, Cruz I, Esteban A. Cortical excitability in very mild Alzheimer's disease: a long-term follow-up study. J Neurol 2010 Jul 31. [Epub ahead of print]

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