• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제62권2호
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• pp.103-109
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• 2013

In this study, the three sounds effects on subjects due to EEG type, and it researched to find optimal sound to increase their amenity and productivity. EEG and HRV were compared and analyzed in the environmental test room by classifying subjects into two type: A and B. The condition of the environmental test room was in temperature $31[^{\circ}C]$, relative humidity 50[RH%], air current speed 0.02[m/s] and illuminance 1000[lux] with setting up three different sounds which are U type sound, V type sound and Z type sound. The result of this study, at U type sound for A and B type, relative $M{\alpha}$ wave, relative $M{\beta}$ wave and SEF50 were revitalized. Also at Z type sound for A and B type, stress index, fatigue degree and HRT were decreased and SDNN was revitalized. Therefore U type sound is very effective to increase amenity, productivity and concentration, and Z type sound is very effective to decrease stress and fatigue degree.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.286-294
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• 2008

This work investigates the characteristics of brain interactions of experienced Zen-Buddhist practitioners by obtaining multichannel EEG (electroencephalogram) data. Brain interactions were compared among three phases-40-minute meditation (M), 5-minute Chakra-focusing practice (Z) and rest with closed eyes (R). The similarity index S, developed in nonlinear dynamical system theory, was employed to measure the degree of possibly asymmetric coupling. Meditators exhibited, overall, stronger interactions among multiple cortical areas in meditation stages M and Z than in the R state. This enhancement was greater in the M stage when the meditator was accompanied by a thought-free and fully consciousness state. In the high-frequency band (>13Hz), the interdependence was also higher in both meditation stages than at baseline rest. However, the interaction strength, especially in the posterior regions, was greatest in the Z stage, which involved internal attention. Few electrode pairs were observed with significant pair-wise asymmetry in the Z state. The similarity is a possible characteristic of dense reciprocal and strong mutual interactions between multiple cortical areas during meditation - especially in the Z state in the high-frequency band. These results demonstrate that profound Zen meditation induces various dynamic states in different phases of meditation, possibly reflected by nonlinear interdependence measure.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.100-107
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• 2003

배 경：뇌파 미세각성은 수면 회복감을 저하시키고 주간 피로감을 초래하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 수면중 주기성 사지운동증은 뇌파기록의 육안판독 소견에 나타나는 미세각성 유무에 따라 두 종류로 나뉘어진다. 미국 수면장애협회에서 제시한 기준은 수면중 주기성 사지운동 이후에 뇌파의 변화가 3초 이상 지속되는 경우를 미세각성으로 판정하고 있다. 그러나 육안판독 만으로는 뇌파 활동의 일부 미세한 변화를 찾아내기 어렵다는 주장도 제기되고 있다. 그러므로 본 연구의 목적은 미세각성이 없는 수면중 주기성 사지 운동의 뇌파변화를 스펙트럼 분석방법을 이용하여 세밀하게 측정하여 수면중 주기성 사지운동증에서 나타나는 각성 반응을 보다 자세히 이해하는데 있다. 방 법：야간 수면다원검사로 수면중 주기성 사지운동증 진단을 받은 환자 10명을 대상으로 하였다. 각각의 피험자에서 2단계 비렘수면에서 발생한 주기성 사지운동 중에서 뇌파의 미세각성이 없는 삽화 30개를 무작위로 선택하여 스펙트럼 분석을 실시하였다. 본 연구에서는 알파파나 세타파로 뇌파변화가 최소 1초 이상 나타날 경우라도 미세각성으로 간주하여 대상군에서 제외함으로써 때문에 최소 3초 이상을 미세각성으로 삼는 미국수면장애학회의 기준보다 엄격한 기준을 적용하였다. 사지운동이 시작된 시각을 기준으로 시작 전 4초 구간과 시작 후 4초 구간의 두 군으로 나누고 해당 뇌파를 각각 스펙트럼 분석하였고 독립 스튜던트 t 검증을 사용하여 두 군을 비교하였다. 결 과：수면중 주기성 사지운동증 지수의 평균은 $16.7{\pm}10.0$회였고 수면중 주기성 사지운동증 지속시간의 평균은 $1.3{\pm}0.7$초였다. 독립 스튜던트 t 검증의 결과 델타파(p=0.000) 영역의 비교활동도가 사지운동후에 유의하게 증가하였고, 알파파(p=0.01) 영역과 시그마파(p=0.000) 영역은 유의하게 감소하였다. 세타파(p=0.05), 베타파(p=0.129), 그리고 감마파(p=0.062) 영역이 감소하였으나 유의할 만한 수준은 아니었다. 결 론：델타파 영역이 증가를 보인 결과는 각성반응이 단계적인 순서로 일어난다는 이론과 합치되는 소견이다. 본 연구의 대상환자가 이전의 유사한 연구의 대상환자에 비하여 평균 지속시간이 더 짧다는 점과 평균 지수가 낮다는 점을 고려한다면, 경한 형태의 수면중 주기성 사지운동증에서도 신경생리학적인 변화가 유발된다고 결론을 내릴 수 있다.

• 대한약침학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.166-170
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• 2019

Objectives: Attentional and memory functions are important aspects of neural plasticity that, theoretically, should be amenable to pharmacopuncture treatments. A previous study from our laboratory suggested that quantitative electroencephalographic (qEEG) measurements of theta/beta ratio (TBR), an index of attentional control, may be indicative of academic performance in a first-semester medical school course. The present study expands our prior report by extracting and analyzing data on frontal theta and beta asymmetries. We test the hypothesis that the amount of frontal theta and beta asymmetries (fTA, fBA), are correlated with TBR and academic performance, thereby providing novel targets for pharmacopuncture treatments to improve cognitive performance. Methods: Ten healthy male volunteers were subjected to 5-10 min of qEEG measurements under eyes-closed conditions. The qEEG measurements were performed 3 days before each of first two block examinations in anatomy-physiology, separated by five weeks. Amplitudes of the theta and beta waveforms, expressed in ${\mu}V$, were used to compute TBR, fTA and fBA. Significance of changes in theta and beta EEG wave amplitude was assessed by ANOVA with post-hoc t-testing. Correlations between TBR, fTA, fBA and the raw examination scores were evaluated by Pearson's product-moment coefficients and linear regression analysis. Results: fTA and fBA were found to be negatively correlated with TBR (P<0.03, P<0.05, respectively) and were positively correlated with the second examination score (P<0.03, P=0.1, respectively). Conclusion: Smaller fTA and fBA were associated with lower academic performance in the second of two first-semester medical school anatomy-physiology block examination. Future studies should determine whether these qEEG metrics are useful for monitoring changes associated with the brain's cognitive adaptations to academic challenges, for predicting academic performance and for targeting phamacopuncture treatments to improve cognitive performance.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.287-293
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• 2007

The researchers have studied for a long time about the depth of anesthesia but they don't make criteria for the depth of anesthesia. Anesthetists can't make a prediction about patient's reaction. Therefore, patients have potential risk such as poisonous side effect, late-awake, early-awake and strain reaction. In this study, the distributed characteristics on the bispectrum and bicoherence, the type of nonlinear signal processing, as a result of the coupling of EEG were presented according to depth of anesthesia. These results were consistent with a trend of delta ratio that the index of evaluation for the depth of anesthesia. The higher-order spectrum (HOS), the bispectrum and bicoherence, gives the useful information about depth of anaesthesia than other indexes.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2017년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.625-626
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• 2017

장시간 앉아 생활을 하는 직장인이나 학생들은 시간 경과에 따른 집중력 저하는 필수적으로 동반되며, 이를 모니터링하여 집중력을 향상시키기 위한 다양한 시도들이 연구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 간편하게 착용이 가능한 무선뇌파계측 시스템기반이 실시간 집중력 모니터링 시스템을 구현하고자 하였으며, 이를 위하여 블루투스기반의 무선뇌파 측정시스템과 스마트폰 기반의 뇌파분석 어플리케이션을 개발하였다. 어플리케이션에서는 실시간 스펙트럼분석을 통해 집중력 파라미터를 추출하고 집중력의 저하를 인지하면 자동으로 피드백할 수 있도록 시스템을 구성하였다. 구현된 시스템의 평가를 위해 집중상태를 유발하고 각각의 상태별 뇌파스펙트럼 파라미터의 상관관계를 분석하였으며, 실험결과 본 연구에서 제시한 기법을 통해 실시간 집중상태 모니터링이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.25-34
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• 1999

The objective of this study is to evaluate the emotional change of a driver according to the change of temperature, humidity, $CO_2$ gas concentration and $C_4H_{10}$ gas concentration in the automobile by electroencephalogram(EEG) spectrum analysis. The experiment was performed in an automobile simulated shielding room with healthy volunteers(age : 18-31, male : 14, female : 7). The subject's emotion at every different condition was indexed 11-point scale(+5 : most pleasant, -5 : least pleasant). The emotion index at each condition resulted in as follows; in temperature $1.00(23.5^{\circ}C)$, $-2.33(30.5^{\circ}C)$, in humidity 1.50(45%), -1.50(65%), in $CO_2$ gas concentration 0.67(500ppm), -0.57(6,000ppm), in $C_4H_{10}$ gas concentration -0.25(0ppm), -2.75(1,200ppm). From EEG spectrum analysis, the average mean power frequency(MPF) value at each different condition was shown as follows; in temperature $5.48(23.5^{\circ}C)$, $4.06(30.5^{\circ}C)$, in humidity 11.03(45%), 3.03(65%), in $CO_2$ gas concentration 7.16(500ppm), 6.38(6,000ppm), in $C_4H_{10}$ gas concentration 10.21(0ppm), 2.87(1,200ppm). When the environment became unpleasant to the subject, all of the obtained MPF values were decreased. It was found that there is close agreement between subjective evaluation by subject's scaling and objective evaluation by EEG spectrum analysis at different environment. These results indicated that the EEG spectrum analysis is a proper method to assess emotional response of a driver in the changing automobile environment.

• 동의신경정신과학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.33-48
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• 2012

Objectives : This study aimed to assess the effects of incense smokes of 'Cheung-Woon' on the concentration and EEG in healthy individuals. Methods : A total of 48 healthy volunteers participated in this study. The volunteers were examined with K-MAS, CBT(Corsi block tapping task), and EEG before and after smelling the incense smokes of 'Cheung-Woon'. K-MAS measured the recalled words, and CBT measured the recalled positions and orders of the color boxes. EEG measured the relative power of ${\theta}$ wave, ${\alpha}$ wave, SMR wave, mid-${\beta}$ wave, high-${\beta}$ wave, ${\gamma}$ wave and T(concentraion index T = (SMR wave + mid-${\beta}$ wave) / ${\theta}$ wave). 'Cheung-Woon' consists of 7 herbal powder, known as a useful effect on the concentration and memory. Results : After smelling 'Cheung-Woon', K-MAS were increased significantly(p<0.05). In relative power of ${\theta}$ wave, F4, T3, and P4 were decreased significantly(p<0.05) and P3 was also decreased significantly(p<0.01). In the relative power of ${\alpha}$ wave, SMR wave, and mid-${\beta}$ wave, the values were not significant. In the relative power of high-${\beta}$ wave, Fp1, and P4 were increased significantly(p<0.05). In relative power of ${\gamma}$ wave, T3 were increased significantly (p<0.05). In T value, F4, T3, T4, and P4 were increased significantly(p<0.05) and P3 were also increased significantly(p<0.01). Conclusions : This results show that smelling incense smokes of 'Cheung-Woon' is an effective way of increasing concentration and memory.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.861-869
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• 2022

투렛증후군 환자에게서 뮤파(Mu wave) 동기화가 깨졌을 때 틱이 발생하고, 그 반대로 뮤파 동기화를 이루면 틱이 발생하지 않는다. 연구시험 결과는 전운동피질(Frontal Cortical 3 사이트)에서 뮤파 동기화를 틱 환자가 인위적으로 하지 않고 뉴로피드백 훈련처럼 자율적으로 뇌파 조절이 이뤄진다면 마찬가지 결과로 틱이 발생하지 않는다는 사실을 시사한다. 피시험자에게 틱을 억제시켰을 때 인지 제어 반응 프로세스가 변경된다. 변경된 인지 제어를 뇌파 주파수 파워를 조절하는 뉴로피드백으로 훈련하면 환자가 인위적으로 틱을 억제하지 않아도 자율적으로 치료가 된다. 연구시험 결과는 뇌 운동영역의 뮤파 통제를 통해 틱이 발생하지 않는 생체신호 지표가 뉴로피드백 훈련의 치료프로토콜이 될 수 있는 단초를 마련하였다. 기존 뉴로피드백 치료 프로토콜인 SMR강화, 세타파-베타파 불균형 수정, 알파파 강화 등에 뮤파 강화를 추가할 수 있게 되었다. 본 연구가 투렛증후군 환자 치료법인 뉴로피드백 치료 프로토콜을 보다 과학적으로 검증하는 후속 연구와 임상시험에 활용될 것이다.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.573-584
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• 2021

Background and objective: This study was conducted with 10 men and women in their 50s-60s to investigate the effect of agro-healing activities on the improvement of mental health. Methods: The experimental group participated in total 8 sessions of agro-healing activities, once a week for 2 hours each, at a care farm in Wanju-gun. Physiological measurements were taken with an electroencephalogram (EEG), Salivettes samples, and blood pressure before and after the activities. Results: As a result of analyzing the changes in brainwaves of the experimental group before and after agro-healing activities, relative slow alpha (RSA), relative fast alpha (RFA), and ratio of alpha to high beta (RAHB), the indices of stability and relaxation, increased after the program with statistical significance. Also, the ratio of SMR to theta (RST) of the attention index increased on the right frontal lobes, temporal lobes, and left occipital lobes, and relative low beta (RLB) increasd on the frontal lobes, temporal lobes, and occipital lobes after the program with statistical significance. The sympathetic nervous system activity, which is a stress index, decreased after the program, whereas the parasympathetic nervous system activity, which is a relaxation index, increased, showing statistical significance (p < .05). As a result of analyzing the changes in blood pressure after the program, systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure decreased from prehypertension to normal blood pressure, showing statistical significance. SThese results indicate that participating in agro-healing activities at a care farm for the 50-60s helps reduce stress and improve stability and relaxation as well as attention. Conclusion: Thus, developing and applying customized agro-healing programs for participants will have a positive effect on brain activity and psychophysiological improvement by relieving tension and stress. However, there are limitations in generalizing the results of this study since most of agro-healing farms have low accessibility that leads to a low level of participants.