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Overview

Sandra Baez is affiliated with Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Their work encompasses a wide range of topics and subfields, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding brain function, cognitive aging, and mental health.

The researcher's work focuses primarily on areas including dementia and cognitive impairment research, functional brain connectivity studies, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development. Other main interests include the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, health, environment, and cognitive aging, as well as neural and behavioral psychology studies and mental health and psychiatry.

Baez's publication record includes notable recent papers such as:

  • Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders (2020, Brain)
  • Dementia in Latin America: Paving the way toward a regional action plan (2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia)
  • The neuroscience of sadness: A multidisciplinary synthesis and collaborative review (2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Brain clocks capture diversity and disparities in aging and dementia across geographically diverse populations (2024, Nature Medicine)
  • The role of social cognition skills and social determinants of health in predicting symptoms of mental illness (2020, Translational Psychiatry)

Their research has been frequently published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Nature Medicine
  • Scientific Reports
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Baez collaborates regularly with several coauthors, with the most frequent partners including:

  • Agustín Ibáñez
  • Hernando Santamaría-García
  • Sol Fittipaldi
  • Adolfo M. García
  • Joaquín Migeot

Within their fields of study, Baez has produced a considerable number of publications in neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Subfields with significant contributions include cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, neurology, and social psychology.

Best Publications

  • Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders

    Simon Ducharme;Annemiek Dols;Robert Laforce;Emma Devenney

  • Men, women…who cares? A population-based study on sex differences and gender roles in empathy and moral cognition.

    Sandra Baez;Daniel Flichtentrei;María Prats;Ricardo Mastandueno

  • Dementia in Latin America: Assessing the present and envisioning the future

    Mario A. Parra;Sandra Baez;Ricardo Allegri;Ricardo Nitrini

  • Primary empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia

    Sandra Baez;Facundo Manes;David Huepe;Teresa Torralva

  • Feeling, learning from and being aware of inner states: interoceptive dimensions in neurodegeneration and stroke

    Indira García-Cordero;Lucas Sedeño;Lucas Sedeño;Laura de la Fuente;Laura de la Fuente;Andrea Slachevsky

  • Contextual Social Cognition Impairments in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

    Sandra Baez;Sandra Baez;Sandra Baez;Eduar Herrera;Lilian Villarin;Donna Theil

  • Structural neuroimaging of social cognition in progressive non-fluent aphasia and behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia

    Blas Couto;Facundo Manes;Patricia Montañés;Diana Matallana

  • How do you feel when you can't feel your body? Interoception, functional connectivity and emotional processing in depersonalization-derealization disorder.

    Lucas Sedeño;Blas Couto;Margherita Melloni;Andrés Canales-Johnson

  • Cortical deficits of emotional face processing in adults with ADHD: Its relation to social cognition and executive function

    Agustin Ibáñez;Agustin Petroni;Hugo Urquina;Fernando Torrente

  • Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome

    Sandra Baez;Sandra Baez;Alexia Rattazzi;María Luz Gonzalez-Gadea;Teresa Torralva

  • Subliminal presentation of other faces (but not own face) primes behavioral and evoked cortical processing of empathy for pain.

    Agustín Ibáñez;Esteban Hurtado;Alejandro Lobos;Josefina Escobar

  • Your perspective and my benefit: multiple lesion models of self-other integration strategies during social bargaining.

    Margherita Melloni;Margherita Melloni;Pablo Billeke;Sandra Baez;Sandra Baez;Eugenia Hesse;Eugenia Hesse

  • Comparing Moral Judgments of Patients With Frontotemporal Dementia and Frontal Stroke

    Sandra Baez;Blas Couto;Blas Couto;Blas Couto;Teresa Torralva;Teresa Torralva;Luciano A. Sposato;Luciano A. Sposato

  • Dementia in Latin America: Paving the way toward a regional action plan.

    Mario Alfredo Parra;Sandra Baez;Lucas Sedeño;Cecilia Gonzalez Campo

  • Cognitive variability in adults with ADHD and AS: disentangling the roles of executive functions and social cognition.

    Maria Luz Gonzalez-Gadea;Sandra Baez;Teresa Torralva;Francisco Xavier Castellanos;Francisco Xavier Castellanos

  • The neural basis of decision-making and reward processing in adults with euthymic bipolar disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

    Agustin Ibanez;Agustin Ibanez;Agustin Ibanez;Marcelo Cetkovich;Agustin Petroni;Agustin Petroni;Hugo Urquina;Hugo Urquina

  • The neuroscience of sadness: A multidisciplinary synthesis and collaborative review.

    Juan A. Arias;Juan A. Arias;Claire Williams;Rashmi Raghvani;Moji Aghajani

  • Theory of mind and its relationship with executive functions and emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder

    Sandra Baez;Juan Marengo;Ana Perez;David Huepe

  • From neural signatures of emotional modulation to social cognition: individual differences in healthy volunteers and psychiatric participants

    Agustin Ibanez;Agustin Ibanez;Agustin Ibanez;Jaume Aguado;Sandra Baez;David Huepe

  • Orbitofrontal and limbic signatures of empathic concern and intentional harm in the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.

    Sandra Baez;Sandra Baez;Sandra Baez;Juan P. Morales;Andrea Slachevsky;Teresa Torralva;Teresa Torralva

  • Brain Network Organization and Social Executive Performance in Frontotemporal Dementia.

    Lucas Sedeño;Blas Couto;Indira García-Cordero;Margherita Melloni

  • Parkinson's disease compromises the appraisal of action meanings evoked by naturalistic texts

    Adolfo M. García;Yamile Bocanegra;Elena Herrera;Leonardo Moreno

Frequent Co-Authors

Agustín Ibáñez
Agustín Ibáñez Adolfo Ibáñez University
Facundo Manes
Facundo Manes Favaloro University
Adolfo M. García
Adolfo M. García University of San Andrés
Teresa Torralva
Teresa Torralva Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva
Mariano Sigman
Mariano Sigman Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Lucas Sedeño
Lucas Sedeño National Scientific and Technical Research Council
David Huepe
David Huepe Adolfo Ibáñez University
Jean Decety
Jean Decety University of Chicago
Oscar S. Gershanik
Oscar S. Gershanik Favaloro University
Olivier Piguet
Olivier Piguet University of Sydney

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