Drawings as a tool for assessment of cultural heritage understanding: a case study in a Mixed Reality Learning experience

Drawings often are for younger pupils a crucial way to express themselves but are seldom used as a tool of assessment and evaluation. We decided to use them to understand the impact of AR and MR technology heritage education on 132 students of the fifth primary school grade in Verona. We developed a way to analyse students’ drawings based on the frequency of the subject and on Jonassen’s rubrics for assessing system dynamics models which helped us in support and better understand the other qu...

Answer to "Current Potential for Clinical Optimization of Social Cognition Assessment for Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Psychiatric Disorders"

Early Identification of Different Behavioral Phenotypes in the Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia with the Aid of the Mini-Frontal Behavioral Inventory (mini-FBI)

Background: The Frontal Behavioral Inventory (FBI) is a questionnaire designed to quantify behavioral changes in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Literature showed heterogeneous FBI profiles in FTD versus Alzheimer's disease (AD) with variable occurrence of positive and negative symptoms.Objective: In this study, we constructed a short FBI version (i.e., mini-FBI) with the aim to provide clinicians with a brief tool for the identification of early behavioral changes in behavioral variant of FTD...

Human-specific genes define human-specific cancer cell populations in medulloblastoma

While being studied as potential drivers of human brain development, the impact of human-specific (HS) genes on disease remains unclear and their functional role in tumor development has never been demonstrated. Here we analyzed the expression of HS genes in human medulloblastoma, and we found that HS genes are predominantly expressed in medulloblastoma cells with a gene signature similar to cells of human developing cerebellum, in particular related to glutamatergic lineage and Rhombic Lip (...