• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.143-151
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• 2011

With today's new media environment throughout Ubiquitous information innovation, live and dynamic fluid space is being created by integrating organic integration between electronic space and physical space and transplanting intelligence to materials. In other words, perception occurs in fluid space itself in a new media environment so has complicatedly organic relationship with environment and humans. In addition, emotion, time and movement have actively attempted to enter the space so designs appealing to humans' emotions are made through stimulation of synaesthetic sensory organs. This can be understood in the same context that media is eventually expansion of human body. Fluid space has characteristics of a live organism with factors such as sensor, perception and behavior so it needs to interpret perceptual system relationally and synthetically through an organic study method. This study looks into characteristics of organic perceptual system in terms of the meaning that fluid space with movements have as the sensory-perceptive subject and accordingly makes the world more sufficient as the third space, prepares a possibility to get out of limited five senses, and will develop fluid space as the organic environment making stimulation by itself.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제49권12호
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• pp.249-255
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• 2012

청각 신경의 정상적 기능 회복을 위해 사용하는 인공와우는 인체 조직에 손상을 주는 단상파 방식의 펄스 대신 전하량 균형을 이루는 이상파 방식의 전기적 펄스를 사용한다. 본 논문에서는, Hodgkin-Huxley 신경 모델에 기반하여 다양한 전기적 펄스 방식의 자극이 신경 반응에 미치는 영향에 대하여 연구하였다. 전기적 펄스의 펄스 폭, 펄스간 간격 등을 변화시키면서, 청각신경의 역치, 반응 범위, 반응 시간 등을 측정하였다. 이러한 결과는 인공와우 시스템의 효과적인 자극 방식을 디자인 하는데, 활용 될 수 있으리라 기대된다.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.13-16
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• 2005

Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the intensive functional electrical stimulation(FES) on the improvement of the gait pattern of the chronic hemiplegic patients. Method: Six hemiplegic patients, who could walk independently but have equinovarus deformity during the gait cycle, participated in this study. The affected peroneus longus and tibialis anterior muscles of all subjects were stimulated for 2 weeks period (20 minutes duration, 6 times/day). We measured the activities (mean voltage) of those muscles during the walking, using dynamic EMG. Results: After treatment, there were significant improvements in the strength of peroneus longus and tibialis anterior muscles and the gait speed, but there was no interval change of the spasticity of plantar flexor. The mean voltages of two muscles are significantly increased in all the patients (p<0.05). Conclusion: The results showed that the intensive FES on affected peroneus longus and tibialis anterior muscles in chronic hemiplegic patients could be useful for the improvement of functional gait.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.74-79
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• 2017

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of the FES-gait with augmented feedback training to the FES alone on the gait and functional performance in individuals with chronic stroke. Methods: This study used a pretest and posttest randomized control design. The subjects who signed the agreement were randomly divided into 12 experimental groups and 12 control groups. The experimental groups performed two types of augmented feedback training (knowledge of performance and knowledge of results) together with FES, and the control group performed FES on the TA and GM without augmented feedback and then walked for 30 minutes for 40 meters. Both the experimental groups and the control groups received training five times a week for four weeks. Results: The groups that received the FES with augmented feedback training significantly showed a greater improvement in single limb support (SLS) and gait velocity than the groups that received FES alone. In addition, timed up and go (TUG) test and six minute walk test (6MWT) showed a significant improvement in the groups that received FES with augmented feedback compared to the groups that received FES alone. Conclusion: Compared with the existing FES gait training, augmented feedback showed improvements in gait parameters, walking ability, and dynamic balance. The augmented feedback will be an important method that can provide motivation for motor learning to stroke patients.

• 한국감성과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국감성과학회 2008년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.46-49
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• 2008

This study aims to suggest basic materials to develop an emotional font for future Hangeul font development plan by investigating emotional reaction displayed through the subjects and by quantifying its contribution of the stimulation elements causing such reaction. For this, a survey of 150 university students who are currently enrolled in the College of Design was conducted in order to analyze correlation between 30 emotional words extracted from the Hangeul font and the selected 36 sample fonts. The combined data was described with the two dimensional dispersion using the quantification theory type III. The analysis found out that the Hangeul font forms the x-axis showing "soft(dynamic).hard(static)" and the y-axis showing "modern(light).classic(heavy)”. Specifically, there exist emotional groups such as "archaic","masculine","feminine","negative", and "modern static"on each axis. In addition, to extract the casual relationship between the value of emotional reaction and its stimulation elements quantitatively, the author indicated the emotional words of each axis and the total value of equivalent five emotional word groups as the standard variance and the constituent of Hangeul font as the independent variable, and then the quantification theory type I was used to analyze the physical elements of the Hangeul font. As a result, "the centerline of gravity(base line)" and "thickness variance of a stroke" on the two axes, and "the centerline of gravity(base line)" and "decoration" among the five groups were identified as the most influential elements that affect the emotional reaction of the subjects.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.241-246
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• 2002

We studied the excitatory action of morphine on the responses of dorsal horn neuron to iontophoretic application of excitatory amino acid and C-fiber stimulation by using the in vivo electrophysiological technique in the rat. In 137 of the 232 wide dynamic range (WDR) neurons tested, iontophoretic application of morphine enhanced the WDR neuron responses to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), kainate, and graded electrical stimulation of C-fibers. Morphine did not have any excitatory effects on the responses of low threshold cells. Morphine-induced excitatory effect at low ejection current was naloxone-reversible and reversed to an inhibitory action at high ejection current. NMDA receptor, calcium channel and intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ antagonists strongly antagonized the morphine-induced excitatory effect. These results suggest that changes in intracellular ionic concentration, especially $Ca^{2+},$ play an important role in the induction of excitatory effect of morphine in the rat dorsal horn neurons.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2010

Purpose: This study aimed to determine the effects of sensory feedback training of the ankle with visuoperceptual stimulation on static balance and gait functions in patients with chronic post-stroke hemiparesis. Methods: This study included 16 patients with chronic post-stroke hemiparesis. The subjects were randomly assigned toeither the experimental group (EG) or the control group (CG), with 8 subjects in each group. All the subjects received a routine physical therapy. The EG subjects received a 30-min sensory feedback training for the foot and ankle with visuoperceptual stimulation by using Tetrax Portable Multiple System. This training was conducted 3 times a week for 4 weeks. The scores of balance ability, timed up and go (TUG), and dynamic gait index (DGI) were assessed before and after the intervention. Results: In the EG, the scores of static balance, TUG, and DGI obtained afterthe intervention significantly differed from those obtained before the intervention (p<0.05). Further, in the EG, a significant difference was noted in the rate of change of all the variables when compared with those of the CG (p<0.05). However, in the CG, post-intervention score were only significantly different for DGI. Conclusion: Our findings indicate that the sensory feedback training with visuoperceptual stimulation improves balance and gait functions of patients with chronic post-stroke hemiparesis. Further studies are needed to generalize the results of this study.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2002년도 추계공동학술대회 정보환경 변화에 따른 신정보기술 패러다임
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• pp.461-467
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• 2002

뇌에서 얻은 시계열 신호들은 대부분 불규칙하고 복잡한 파형을 가지고 있으며, 1980년대 중반까지만 해도 이러한 신호들은 확률론 과정(stochastic process)으로 발생된 '소음'(noise)으로 여겨졌다. 하지만 최근 들어 뇌에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되었고 EEG를 이용한 생체신호의 비선형분석에 관한 연구가 진행되면서 뇌에서 발생되는 신호는 의미 있는 신호로 분석되어지고 있다. 이에 비선형 분석방법인 상관차원을 이용하여 라벤더 향기 전과 향기 후의 뇌파의 변화를 분석하고, 주파수 대역별로 delta파, theta파, alpha파, beta파로 나누어서 라벤더 향이 뇌에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 즉, 뇌에서 발생되는 신호의 특징을 찾기 위해 다른 향보다 강하게 반응하는 라벤더 향을 후각자극으로 제시하여 EEG를 측정한 후, 16채널에 대한 상관차원을 구하고 라벤더 향이 뇌에 미치는 영향을 분석한다.

• 한국산업정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산업정보학회 2002년도 추계공동학술대회
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• pp.461-467
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• 2002

뇌에서 얻은 시계열 신호들은 대부분 불규칙하고 복잡한 파형을 가지고 있으며, 1980년대 중반까지만 해도 이러한 신호들은 확률론 과정(stochastic process)으로 발생된 '소음'(noise)으로 여겨졌다. 하지만 최근 들어 뇌에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되었고 EEG를 이용한 생체신호의 비선형 분석에 관한 연구가 진행되면서 뇌에서 발생되는 신호는 의미 있는 신호로 분석되어지고 있다. 이에 비선형 분석방법인 상관차원을 이용하여 라벤더 향기 전과 향기 후의 뇌파의 변화를 분석하고, 주파수 대역별로 delta파, theta파, alpha파, beta파로 나누어서 라벤더 향이 뇌에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 즉, 뇌에서 발생되는 신호의 특징을 찾기 위해 다른 향보다 강하게 반응하는 라벤더 향을 후각 자극으로 제시하여 EEG를 측정한 후, 16채널에 대한 상관차원을 구하고 라벤더 향이 뇌에 미치는 영향을 분석한다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.237-244
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• 1999

Magnesium ion is known to selectively block the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-induced responses and to have anticonvulsive action, neuroprotective effect and antinociceptive action in the behavioral test. In this study, we investigated the effect of $Mg^{2+}$ on the responses of dorsal horn neurons to cutaneous thermal stimulation and graded electrical stimulation of afferent nerves as well as to excitatory amino acids and also elucidated whether the actions of $Ca^{2+}$ and $Mg^{2+}$ are additive or antagonistic. $Mg^{2+}$ suppressed the thermal and C-fiber responses of wide dynamic range (WDR) cell without any effect on the A-fiber responses. When $Mg^{2+}$ was directly applied onto the spinal cord, its inhibitory effect was dependent on the concentration of $Mg^{2+}$ and duration of application. The NMDA- and kainate-induced responses of WDR cell were suppressed by $Mg^{2+}$, the NMDA-induced responses being inhibited more strongly. $Ca^{2+}$ also inhibited the NMDA-induced responses current-dependently. Both inhibitory actions of $Mg^{2+}$ and $Ca^{2+}$ were additive, while $Mg^{2+}$ suppressed the EGTA-induced augmentation of WDR cell responses to NMDA and C-fiber stimulation. Magnesium had dual effects on the spontaneous activities of WDR cell. These experimental findings suggest that $Mg^{2+}$ is implicated in the modulation of pain in the rat spinal cord by inhibiting the responses of WDR cell to noxious stimuli more strongly than innocuous stimuli.