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Carolina Patricia Mendez Orellana

Assistant Professor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Advanced MRI imaging: functional MRI (fMRI), Densor Tensor Imaging (DTI) and Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL). Language processing and language recovery in aphasia post-stroke, in brain tumors and patients with dementia (primary progressive aphasia)

Educación

  •  Cognitive Neuroscience, UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT. Holanda, 2009
  •  Neuroscience of Language , ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM. Holanda, 2014
  •  Fonoaudiologa, UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR. Chile, 2006

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Asistente Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Medicine

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Coordinator Functional Imaging in Aphasia Treatment Full Time

    Erasmmus Medical Center Rotterdam

    Rotterdam, Holanda

    2009 - 2014

  •   Research Director Full Time

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - A la fecha


 

Article (14)

Alternative language paradigms for functional magnetic resonance imaging as presurgical tools for inducing crossed cerebro-cerebellar language activations in brain tumor patients



Article ISI
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY  (2022)

Alzheimer's Disease or Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia? Review of Key Points Toward an Accurate Clinical and Neuropsychological Diagnosis

Slachevsky, Andrea; Mendez-Orellana, Carolina; Ibáñez, Agustín; Hornberger, Michael; Lillo, Patricia

Article ISI SCOPUS
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE  (2020)

Imageability ratings across languages

Bjekic, J; Kraljevic, JK; Mavis, I; Orellana, CM; Vuksanovic, J; Howard, D

Article ISI
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS  (2018)

Language lateralisation after Melodic Intonation Therapy: an fMRI study in subacute and chronic aphasia

van de Sandt-Koenderman, Mieke W. M. E.; Orellana, Carolina P. Mendez; van der Meulen, Ineke; Ribbers, Gerard M.

Article ISI
APHASIOLOGY  (2018)

ESMRMB 2017, 34th Annual Scientific Meeting, Barcelona, ES, October 19–October 21: Abstracts, Friday



Article
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine  (2017)

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and neural reorganisation after aphasia treatment

Blom-Smink, R.M.A.; Orellana, C.P.M.; van de Sandt-Koenderman, W.M.E.; Ribbers, G.M.

Article
Brain Stimulation  (2017)

Early-stage differentiation between presenile Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia using arterial spin labeling MRI

Houston, Gavin C.; Mutsaerts, Henri J. M. M.; de Jong, Frank Jan; van der Lugt, Aad

Article ISI
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY  (2016)

The efficacy of cognitive-linguistic treatment in stroke patients with chronic aphasia

Evy, Visch-Brink; Carolina, Mendez Orellana; Hester, Lingsma; Femke, Nouwens; Marjolein, De Jong-Hagelstein; Peter, Koudstaal; Marion, Smits

Article
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY  (2016)

Crossed Cerebrocerebellar Language Lateralization: An Additional Diagnostic Feature for Assessing Atypical Language Representation in Presurgical Functional MR Imaging

Orellana, C. Mendez; Visch-Brink, E.; Vernooij, M.; Kalloe, S.; Satoer, D.; van der Lugt, A.

Article ISI
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEURORADIOLOGY  (2015)

Standardized evaluation of algorithms for computer-aided diagnosis of dementia based on structural MRI: The CADDementia challenge

Bron, Esther E.; Smits, Marion; Vrenken, Hugo; Barkhof, Frederik; Papma, Janne M.; Steketee, Rebecca M. E.; Orellana, Carolina Mendez; Meijboom, Rozanna; Pinto, Madalena; Meireles, Joana R.; et al.

Article ISI
NEUROIMAGE  (2015)

Insight into the neurophysiological processes of melodically intoned language with functional MRI

van de Sandt-Koenderman, Mieke E.; Saliasi, Emi; Klip, Simone

Article ISI
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR  (2014)

Decreased Relative Contribution to Language Processing of the Right Hemisphere after Language Therapy Assessed with fMRI in Chronic Aphasia Patients

Orellana, Mendez C.; De Jong-Hagelstein, M.; Koudstaal, P.; Miozzo, M

Article ISI
7TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES  (2012)

Functional MRI-based identification of brain areas involved in motor imagery for implantable brain-computer interfaces

Hermes, D.; Vansteensel, M. J.; Albers, A. M.; Bleichner, M. G.; Benedictus, M. R.; Aarnoutse, E. J.; Ramsey, N. F.

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING  (2011)

Age- and Sex-Associated Glucose Metabolism Decline in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

Camila Gherardelli; Cisternas, Pedro Antonio; Roberto F Vera-Salazar

Article
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE  

BookSection (1)

Functionele MRI of Taalvewerking

Erick Robert; Anne Sophie Beeckman

BookSection
 (2013)

BookWhole (1)

Functional MRI of Language processing and recovery



BookWhole
 (2015)

Proyecto (2)

SENSORY AND ELECTRIC BRAIN STIMULATION FOR NEUROREHABILITATION: FROM MECHANISMS TO CLINICAL PRACTICE

El Deredy, Wael

Proyecto
 (2022)

FMRI LANGUAGE PARADIGMS TO ASSESS CROSSED CEREBRO-CEREBELLAR LANGUAGE LATERALIZATION IN BRAIN TUMOR PATIENTS: A PILOT FMRI STUDY

Mery M, Francisco

Proyecto
 (2016)

1
Agustin Ibanez

Profesor Titular

Psicologia

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

1
Andrea Slachevsky

Associate Professor

ICBM

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Chile, Chile

1
Christian Gonzalez

Full Professor

Biologia

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

18
Carolina Mendez

Assistant Professor

Health Sciences

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
María Rodríguez

Profesora Asociada

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Gada Musa

Investigador

Neurología

Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile