Objective: to identify the relationship between depression and the school average in students of the Faculty of Psychology and Therapy of Human Communication, UJED. Depression was assessed by the Beck Test to 110 students. It is a quantitative, exploratory, non-experimental, observational and cross-sectional study, with descriptive and correlational statistical analysis, with non-probabilistic sampling for convenience. Chronbach's alpha of the analyzed data was 0.89. 50% of the students presented some level of depression, with a significant correlation between depression and the school average with r: -. 247 and p: .009. Contribution: the results indicate that, in a very weak, but statistically significant way, the higher the school average, the lower the level of depression among students. The high frequency of the incidence of depression in the sample studied plus the significant correlation, suggest the need to implement depression care programs concurrent to the educational process.

El porcentaje de niños latinoamericanos en edad preescolar con deficiencia en el desarrollo del lenguaje oscila entre 10 % y 80 %. Objetivo: Conocer el porcentaje de deficiencia en el lenguaje de niños preescolares del norte de la ciudad de Durango, Durango (México), para lo cual se empleó el cuestionario de madurez neuropsicológica infantil. Metodología: El estudio fue no experimental, observacional, transeccional y descriptivo, en un universo de trabajo de 833 niños, para lo que se consideró 95 % de confiabilidad en una muestra estadísticamente significativa de 214 participantes; sin embargo, debido a la culminación del ciclo escolar, solo fue posible evaluar a 148 participantes en el periodo de noviembre de 2017 a junio de 2018. El grupo estudiado fue dividido en 4 subgrupos: 55-60 meses de edad, 61-66 meses de edad, 67-72 meses de edad y 73-78 meses de edad. Resultados: El alfa de Cronbach de las variables estudiadas fue 0.618. Se observaron deficiencias en las dos áreas del lenguaje evaluadas: lenguaje verbal y lenguaje no verbal. En los cuatro grupos estudiados, la mayor deficiencia se observó en el área del lenguaje verbal con porcentajes que oscilaron entre -80.5 % y -95.9 % en fluidez verbal; lenguaje expresivo con -27.5 % al -55.2 %; lenguaje comprensivo con -15.7 % al -31.1 % y lenguaje articulatorio con -14.1 % al -19.3 %. Las demás variables del grupo de lenguaje no verbal —estructuración espacial, psicomotricidad, visopercepción y memoria icónica— presentaron porcentajes de deficiencia menores a los observados en las variables de lenguaje verbal, aunque se destacan atención con -39.5 % al -43.2 %, ritmo con -2.9 % al -34.5 %, visopercepción con -10.6 % al -25.7 %, estructuración espacial con -3.5 % al -11.1 %, memoria icónica con -6.8 %, psicomotricidad con -3.6 %. Todos los grupos de edad estudiados presentaron deficiencia en seis o más variables del instrumento de evaluación empleado. Las variables del lenguaje no verbal que presentaron resultados satisfactorios por grupo de meses de edad fueron las siguientes: estructuración espacial en el grupo de 55-60 y en el de 67-72; psicomotricidad en el grupo de 55-60, 61-66 y 67-72; visopercepción en el grupo de 55-60; memoria icónica en los grupos de 55-60 y 67-72. Conclusión: De las áreas de lenguaje evaluadas, la de mayor afectación fue lenguaje verbal, lo cual permite considerar la necesidad de implementar la evaluación del desarrollo del lenguaje en la población infantil preescolar para considerar la oportunidad de optimizarlo.

Objective: Identify the effects of the National School Coexistence Program on mental health in parents of primary and secondary education students, applied in the 2020-2021 school year, a period characterized by confinement caused by COVID-19. Methodology: research carried out by an exploratory, non-experimental, observational and cross-sectional survey with descriptive statistical analysis. A non-probabilistic sampling was used by accident and convenience, selected with 95% reliability. To carry out the present investigation, the questionnaires, GAD7, PHQ9 and Burnout of Shirom-Melamed Burnout were used, for the statistical analysis of the characteristics of the studied population, measures of central tendency and dispersion were used. Contribution: significant data are presented on the emotional well-being of parental figures, during the 2020-2021 school year, in which educational institutions worked online due to COVID-19 and the National School Coexistence Program was applied.

Neurocognitive functions are indispensable faculties for daily, social and working life. Objective: Prevalence of altered cognitive functions in patients recovering from drug addiction and alcoholism using the Neuropsychological Battery NEUROPSI. Methodology: exploratory, non-experimental, observational research based on the Neuropsi brief neuropsychological assessment instrument in Spanish. Contribution: in a sample of 20 participants, the following results were obtained: 60 % of the population studied showed alterations in neurocognitive functions, 15 % showed mild alterations, 25 % showed noderate alterations and the other 20 % showed severe alterations. On the other hand, the population within normal parameters (40 %) presented low scores in reading comprehension, attention and concentration.

Dementia is one of the neurocognitive disorders that most affect the elderly population, and refers to severe damage to executive functions and is classified according to the condition. (Esparza, 2005). The objective of the research is to identify the prevalence of dementia in the elderly in an age range of 65 to 90 years old in the Destellos de Luz Center in the City of Durango, as well as its main risk factors and the characteristics of people with dementia using the MiniMental Test. The type of methodology implemented is of mixed type and case studies using. In which a cognitive impairment was obtained as a result in the three participants. More than 50% of the population of older adults evaluated suffer from undetected dementia.