• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.30-40
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• 2004

목적: 본 연구의 목적은 첫째, 내측 측두엽 간질환자의 MR 영상에 화소기반 형태분석방법(VBM)을 적용하여 회백질 부피감소를 보이는 영역을 뇌 전체를 관찰하여 찾아내고자 하였다. 둘째, 본 연구에서 적용된 VBM방법이 내측측두엽 간질환자의 간질병소의 편측성을 평가하기에 쓰일 수 있을지 조사하였다. MR영상으로 VBM 결과를 FDG PET의 SPM 분석결과와 비교하였다. 대상 및 방법: 12명의 좌측 내측측두엽 간질환자와 11명의 우측 내측측두엽 간질환자의 T1 강조영상을 각각 37명의 정상 대조군의 영상과 비교하였다. 모든 영상을 표준 뇌 표준판에 공간정합한 후, 평균영상을 생성하여 연구-특정적 뇌 표준판을 만들고 이 연구 측정적 표준판에 다시 비선형 공간정규화 하였다. 영상을 분할하여 회백질영상을 추출하고 변조한 후 편평화하였다. 환자군과 정상군의 차이를 SPM99를 이용하여 허위발견률을 기준으로 통계처리하였다. FDG PET 영상을 SPM을 이용하여 정상대조군 22명과 비교하였다. 결과: 좌측 내측측두엽 간질환자는 좌측의 해마와 편도체 영역에 회백질 부피/농도가 감소하였고, 뇌의 양측 소뇌, 전대상회, 방추상회의 부피/농도가 감소하였다. 우측 내측측두엽 간질환자는 우측 해마의 서 회백질이 감소하였다. 좌측 내측측두엽 간질은 좌측 측두엽과 시상 우측 내측측두엽간질 환자는 우측측두엽에 광범위한 부위에 FDG 섭취가 감소하였다. 결론: VBM 방법을 적용한 결과 간질원인 병소 해마와 해마주변영역에서 유의하게 회백질 부피/농도가 감소하였다. FDG PET SPM 분석에서 간질원인병소의 대사 감소를 찾을 수 있었던 것처럼, 이 연구에서 적용한 변조 VBM 방법은 내측측두엽 간질환자의 간질원인병소를 편측화할 수 있었고 내측측두엽을 제외한 다른 뇌영역의 해부학적 변화를 발견하는데 도움이 되었다. 이에 비하여 간질원인병소인 좌우측측두엽의 넓은 부위에 FDG 섭취가 감소하여 대조되었다.

• 인지과학
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.77-93
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• 2010

본 연구는 마음이론 능력 측정 과제의 하나인 헛디딤 탐지를 수행하는데 관여하는 신경상관 영역을 확인하려는 것이었다. 기능적 자기공명영상 기법을 이용하여 헛디딤 이야기 문장과 헛디딤을 포함하지 않는 통제 이야기 문장을 제시하였을 때 나타나는 뇌 활성화 영역을 비교하였다. 양 반구의 상전두회(BA 6/9)와 설전소엽(BA 7), 좌반구의 내전두회(BA 9), 상측두회(BA 38), 하측두회(BA 20)와 우반구의 하두정소엽(BA 40), 중심후회(BA 1), 설회(BA 18), 횡전두회(BA 41) 등의 영역에서 활성화가 나타났다. 헛디딤 탐지를 하는 동안 안와전두피질과 편도의 활성화는 나타나지 않았다. 이런 결과는 마음이론과 관련된 뇌 활성화는 과제가 이끌어내는 마음상태의 유형에 달려있음을 시사한다.

• 대한자기공명의과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한자기공명의과학회 2001년도 제6차 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.172-172
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• 2001

Purpose： To evaluate compensatory change of opposite hippocampus after temporal lobe surgery in th patient with temporal lobe epilepsy by using single-voxel proton MR spectroscopy. Method： Eighteen patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) whose MR diagnos was unilateral hippocampal sclerosis (n=11) or localized unilateral anterior temporal lobe lesio (n=7) and who underwent anterior temporal lobectomy were included in the study. Singl proton MRS of opposite hippocampus was carried out on the same day or within 1 week af MR imaging before temporal lobe surgery and after over 1-year post-surgical follow-u Single voxel proton MRS were acquired using GE signa 1.5T scanner and spectrosco system (TR, 1500-2, 000： TE, 136-144). Region of interest (ROI) was placed in a simitar position for all examination to cover the medial temporal lobes including most of the head an body of hippocampus and a part of amygdala, the parahippocampal gyrus. The MR spectr were evaluated with a focus on the metabolite ratio of N-acetylaspartate (NAA choline-containing phospholipids (Cho), creatine (Cr). The metabolite ratios of NAA/ Cr were calculated from the relative peak height measurement. We evaluated change of th intensity ratio NAA/Cr between before and after surgery, to simplify quantification acro patients, because observed decreases in the ratio of NAA/Cr can be interpreted in terms o neuronal or axonal damage.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.713-717
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• 2008

In the present study, chronic effects of the hot water extracts of walnut seed (Juglans regia L.) (WSE) and Nelumbo nucifera seed (NSE) were investigated in mice exposed to 2 hr of restraint stress each day for 4 weeks. Corticosterone levels in serum were significantly increased in the vehicle-treated stressed group ($25\;{\mu}g/dL$) compared to that in the control group ($13\;{\mu}g/dL$). This stress induced gastric redness and lesions. However, treatment with WSE and/or NSE significantly protected the stomach from this lesion by 50-60% compared to that in the vehicletreated group. In the amygdala, the administration of WSE and/or NSE also reduced the immediate early gene (c-fos) expression by 70-90% vs. the vehicle-treated group. These suggest that WSE and/or NSE may reduce the appearance of symptoms induced by stress and these materials are useful as anti-stress foods, as natural products tend to be relatively safe compared to chemical products.

• Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.449-460
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• 2018

Objective: Prior functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) work has revealed that children/adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) show dysfunctional reward/non-reward processing of non-social reinforcements in the context of instrumental learning tasks. Neural responsiveness to social reinforcements during instrumental learning, despite the importance of this for socialization, has not yet been previously investigated. Methods: Twenty-nine healthy children/adolescents and 19 children/adolescents with DBDs performed the fMRI social/non-social reinforcement learning task. Participants responded to random fractal image stimuli and received social and non-social rewards/non-rewards according to their accuracy. Results: Children/adolescents with DBDs showed significantly reduced responses within the caudate and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) to non-social (financial) rewards and social non-rewards (the distress of others). Connectivity analyses revealed that children/adolescents with DBDs have decreased positive functional connectivity between the ventral striatum (VST) and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) seeds and the lateral frontal cortex in response to reward relative to non-reward, irrespective of its sociality. In addition, they showed decreased positive connectivity between the vmPFC seed and the amygdala in response to non-reward relative to reward. Conclusion: These data indicate compromised reinforcement processing of both non-social rewards and social non-rewards in children/adolescents with DBDs within core regions for instrumental learning and reinforcement-based decision-making (caudate and PCC). In addition, children/adolescents with DBDs show dysfunctional interactions between the VST, vmPFC, and lateral frontal cortex in response to rewarded instrumental actions potentially reflecting disruptions in attention to rewarded stimuli.

• 감성과학
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.77-94
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• 2022

Social interactions often involve encountering inconsistent information about social others. We conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study to comprehensively investigate voxel-wise temporal dynamics showing how impressions are anchored and/or adjusted in response to inconsistent social information. The participants performed a social impression task inside an fMRI scanner in which they were shown a male face, together with a series of four adjectives that described the depicted person's personality traits, successively presented beneath the image of the face. Participants were asked to rate their impressions of the person at the end of each trial on a scale of 1 to 8 (where 1 is most negative and 8 is most positive). We established two hypothetical models that represented two temporal patterns of voxel activity: Model 1 featured decreasing patterns of activity towards the end of each trial, anchoring impressions to initially presented information, and Model 2 showed increasing patterns of activity toward the end of each trial, where impressions were being adjusted using new and inconsistent information. Our data-driven model fitting analyses showed that the temporal activity patterns of voxels within the ventral anterior cingulate cortex, medial orbitofrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, amygdala, and fusiform gyrus fit Model 1 (i.e., they were more involved in anchoring first impressions) better than they did Model 2 (i.e., showing impression adjustment). Conversely, voxel-wise neural activity within dorsal ACC and lateral OFC fit Model 2 better than it did Model 1, as it was more likely to be involved in processing new, inconsistent information and adjusting impressions in response. Our novel approach to model fitting analysis replicated previous impression-related neuroscientific findings, furthering the understanding of neural and temporal dynamics of impression processing, particularly with reference to functionally segmenting each region of interest based on relative involvement in impression anchoring as opposed to adjustment.

• 한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국의학물리학회 2004년도 제29회 추계학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.91-95
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• 2004

알츠하이머병에서는 전산화 단층촬영영상이나 자기공명영상을 이용하여 구조적, 비특이적 뇌 위축등의 병변을 진단할 수는 있으나 뇌 당대사 및 혈류 분포에 의한 이상 유무를 진단하기 위해서는 단일광자방출 단층촬영술 (single photon emission computed tomography, SPECT) 이나 양전자 방출 단층촬영술 (positron emission tomography, PET)을 이용한 국소 뇌혈류나 뇌 당대사 변화를 관찰한 진단이 필수적이다. 따라서 SEPCT나 PET영상 위에 직접 관심영역(region of interest, ROI)를 그려서 ROI를 관찰하여 해부학적 뇌위축과 국소 뇌혈류나 뇌 당대사 변화를 분석하였으나 ROI 방법은 주관적인 영향과 많은 분석 시간을 요하는 단점이 있다. 따라서 통계적 분석 방법을 이용한 맵핑방법으로 voxel based morphometry 방법을 수행하였고 MMSE 값을 분산분석변수로 하여 영상분석하여 $^{18}$F-labeled 2-deoxyglucose ($^{18}$F-FDG) positron emission tomography(PET)-CT 영상을 분석하였다. MMSE 값을 변수로 분석한 voxel based morphemetry 방법에서는 MMSE 값에 의한 대사저하의 변화는 무의미하였다. 알츠하이머병에서는 측두두정엽(temporoparietal cortex)의 cerebral blood flow, oxygen utilization, glucose metabolism은 줄어들고, 일차시각피질, 일차감각피질, 기저핵, 시상, 소뇌는 유지되며 voxel based morphometry 방법은 알츠하이머병을 분석하는데 유용한 분석방법이다.