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Stroke Patients: Effects of Combining Sitting Table Tennis Exercise with Neurological Physical Therapy on Brain Waves

  • Seoung Won Seo;Yong Seong Kim
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.19-23
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the brain waves and develop various exercise programs to improve the physical and mental aspects of stroke patients when neurological physical therapy and sitting table tennis exercise are applied to stroke patients. Methods: In this study, an experiment was conducted on 15 patients diagnosed with stroke, and training was performed after changing the ping-pong table to a sitting position to apply ping-pong exercise to stroke patients. After training was conducted for 40 minutes twice a week for 4 weeks, brain waves were measured before and after. EEG was measured using Laxtha's DSI-24 equipment as a measurement tool, and data values were extracted through the Telescan program. Results: Most of the relative beta waves showed a significant difference before and after the intervention. As for the characteristics of beta waves, this result can be seen as being highly activated during exercise or other activities. Conclusion: Ping-pong exercise in a sitting position is a good intervention method for stroke patients, and it can help to use it as basic data in clinical practice by showing brain activity.

A New Cyclophilin Inhibitor from Ganoderma lucidum: Purification and Characterization

  • Lim, Jin-Ik;Jeong, Ki-Chul;Kang, In-Sug;Kim, Soo-Ja
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.25 no.7
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    • pp.1055-1060
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    • 2004
  • A new inhibitor for peptidylprolyl cis-trans isomerase (PPIase) has been isolated from Ganoderma lucidum and purified to homogeneous state by organic solvent extraction. The purified PPIase inhibitor (GPI) is assumed to be a membrane-associated glycoprotein. GPI inhibits specifically the bovine brain PPIase, a cyclophilin, and has no effect on the FKBP activity. The results of our chemical modification study of GPI indicate the presence of Lys residue(s) at or near its binding site. Like CsA-cyclophilin complex, GPI-bovine brain PPIase complex strongly inhibits the calcineurin activity in vitro, suggesting the possible involvement of GPI in immunomodulating pathway by the formation of PPIase-inhibitor-calcineurin complex.

EEG Asymmetry Changes by the Left and the Right SMR Brainwave of the Computer Learning Versus the Paper and Pencil Learning

  • Kwon, Hyung-Kyu;Cho, Jang-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.1073-1079
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is to present the relationship between the computer learning and the paper and pencil learning through the math learning (simple computation and complex computation) and the cartoon learning and text learning. The canonical correlation and pairwise t-test of the SMR asymmetry brainwaves of the left and the right brain show the brainwaves with the respect to the manner in which they process information during the specified task by identifying the relative activity of the brainwaves of the left and the right brain. SMR brainwave which known as the scientific measure tool for the activity and the function of the neuronal cell were found to predict the level of the awakening to check the readiness of study preparation. Computer education as a medium of the individualized and the repetitive education shows the difference from the paper and the pencil test in the respect of the differences and the relationship of the SMR brainwave of the learning process.

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Effect of Ginseng Ethanol Extract on Lactate Dehydrogenate-5 in Rat Brain with Age (인삼 Ethanol Extract가 쥐의 뇌 Lactate Dehydrogenase-5에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Yeong-Suk;Kim, Tae-U;Jo, Yeong-Dong
    • Journal of Ginseng Research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.72-85
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    • 1985
  • Attempts were made to see if feeding of ginseng ethanol extract could affect proper- ties of rat brain lactate dehydrogenase such as specific activity, heat stability, Km for substrate, inactivation by 3-bromopyruvate and trypsin, and immune response. The following results were obtained. Specific activity of LDH was observed to reach maximum in 5 month after birth and then decrease steadily. However, that of LDH from rat fed with ginseng ethanol extract was found in rat fed with ginseng ethanol extract. 3-bromopyruvate was shown to inactivate LDH-5 from old rat fed. Inactivation of LDH-5 by trypsin was remarkable in old rat fed. Km value for pyruvate in old rat fed was remarkably decreased. Cumulative results suggest that ginseng ethanol extract could affect conformational change of LDH responsible for altered properties through unknown mechanism.

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Clinical Applications of Quantitative EEG (정량화 뇌파(QEEG)의 임상적 이용)

  • Youn, Tak;Kwon, Jun-Soo
    • Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.31-43
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    • 1995
  • Recently, the methods that measure and analyze brain electrical activity quantitatively have been available with the rapid development of computer technology. The quantitative electroencephalography(QEEG) is a method of computer-assisted analyzing brain electrical activity. The QEEG allows for a more sensitive, precise and reproducible examination of EEG data than that can be accomplished by conventional EEG. It is possible to compare various EEG parameters each other by using QEEG. Neurometrics, a kind of the quantitative EEG. is to compare EEG characteristics of the patient with normative data to determine in what way the patient's EEG deviates from normality and to discriminate among psychiatric disorders. Nowadays, QEEG is far superior to conventional EEG in its detection of abnormality and in its usefulness in psychiatric differential diagnosis. The abnormal findings of QEEG in various psychiatric disorders are also discussed.

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Analysis of Brain activity quotient change of HUD location and Color (HUD 위치와 컬러의 변화에 따른 뇌 활성화 지수 분석)

  • Wang, Chang-won;Jung, Hwa-young;Na, Ye-Ji;Min, Se-dong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2015.07a
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    • pp.1397-1398
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    • 2015
  • 본 연구에서는 뇌파를 이용하여 자동차에 HUD를 적용하였을 때, HUD의 위치와 이미지 컬러 변경 시 뇌 활성화 지수(Brain Activity Quotient)의 변화를 관찰하였다. 뇌파데이터는 Fp1, Fp2, O1, O2 총 4채널에서 얻었고, HUD위치는 좌측, 중앙, 우측으로 구성하였고 컬러는 초록, 주황, 빨강 총 3가지 색상을 사용하였다. HUD이미지의 크기는 $8{\times}4.5cm^2$로 구성하였다. 뇌 활성화 지수는 상대파워분석(Relative power analysis)를 사용하여 Slow beta wave(13~20 Hz)/alpha wave(4~7.99 Hz)로 계산하였다.

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Effect of Electroacupuncture at GB14 on Brain Activity (양백(GB14) 전침자극이 뇌파 변화에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Tae-Ri
    • Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.241-251
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    • 2019
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of electroacupuncture at GB14, on brain activity assessed on an electroencephalogram(EEG). Methods : (1) Thirty-four healthy participants were randomly divided into two groups, receiving either real acupuncture or non-penetrating sham acupuncture at GB14. (2) EEG measurements were conducted simultaneously before and after a 5-minute electroacupuncture stimulation, and the differences in the resulting EEG parameters were compared between the test and control groups. Results : (1) Absolute power increased significantly in the theta-wave channel of the occipital region and in the entire alpha-wave channel. (2) Relative power decreased significantly in the theta-wave channels of the frontal and occipital regions. (3) Coherence decreased significantly in the theta- and beta-wave channels of the parietal and occipital regions, and increased significantly in the alpha-wave channels of most areas. Conclusions : This study shows that electroacupuncture stimulation at GB14 activates the alpha frequency band in particular.

Ginsenoside Rgi is an Anti-apoptotic Agent

  • Zhang, Jun-Tian;Li, Jun-Qing
    • Proceedings of the Ginseng society Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.12-20
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    • 1998
  • Primary neuronal culture was studied for observing effect of ginsenoside Rgl (Rgl) on serum-free medium induced apoptosis. Results showed that Rgl at concentration of 1 umol$.$ L-1 and 10 umol$.$L-1 could inhibit apoptosis, decrease intracellular calcium concentration in cultured cortical neurons, enhance SOD activity in both aged rat cortex and cultured cortical neurons, scavenge cytotoxic oxygen free radicals, decrease NO content and NOS activity in aged rat cortex and cultured cortical neurons, increase bel-2 gene expression in rat brain. These results provided new data for elucidating the anti-aging effect of Rgi. Rgl is considered to be a useful drug for treatment of Alzheimer's disease and brain aging.

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A Study on the Development of Integrated Chaos Analysis System for EEG (뇌파신호의 카오스 특징 추출을 위한 통합 시스템의 개발)

  • Woo, Yong-Ho;Kim, Hyun-Sool;Kim, Taek-Soo;Choi, Yoon-Ho;Park, Sang-Hui
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1995.07b
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    • pp.962-964
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    • 1995
  • In this paper, an integrated chaos analysis system for EEG (ICASE) is designed for the analysis of brain functions based on the chaos theory. Nonlinear dynamic characteristics of EEG such as 3-D attractor, Poincare section, correlation dimension, Lyapunov exponents and power spectrum are extracted by this system. The results show that chaotic attractors which indicate the presence of deterministic, dynamics of complex nature could be identified from a routine EEG recording for normal and pathological activity. This proves that the chaotic analysis of EEG may be an appropriate tool in the classification of brain activity and thus a possible diagnostic tool.

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Evaluation of the effect of testosterone supplementation on the brain activity associated with sexual arousal in hypogonadal patients: Functional MRI

  • 은성종;서정진;정광우;강형근;김형중;이진명
    • Proceedings of the KSMRM Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.112-112
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    • 2002
  • Purpose: The Purpose of this study was to evaluate the quantitative variation of brain activity evoked by visual sexual stimulation before and after testosterone supplementation in hypogonadal patients by using BOLD functional MR imaging.

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