• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.191-206
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• 1988

Chick embryos which have received a single injection of the organophosphate compound,malathion (0.1 mg, 0.5 mg, 1.0 mg or 2.0 mg in 0.05 ml of corn oil) via the yolk sac at certain times (2 daya, 4 days or 6 days after incubation) have been investigated. After 9 days of incubation, chick embryos were harvested to investigate the effects of malathion on the development of cerebrum morphologically and biochemically. The effects of simultaneous injection of malathion and nicotinamide were also compared. On ultrastructural examination, neurons in cerebral cortex showed to be inhibited in their differentiation by malathion; nuclear irregularity, swelling of endoplasmic reticulum, and cytoplasmic vacuoles were observed. On cytochemical study of acetylcholinesterase(AChE) by electron microscope, the positive reaction products of this enryme were localized at the membrane of nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum of neurons. Inhibition of AChE activty was severe in groups treated with relatively low doses, which was consistent with the results of spectrophotometric analysis. The activity of lactate dehydrogenase(LDH) of cerebrum in groups treated with malathion was higher than that of the control group. The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide(NAD) content of chick embruo treated with malathioti decreased significantly, and nicotinamide coinjection raised the NAD level as compared with the control group, thus preventing malathion-induced momhological alteration. In conclusion, it is suggested that malathion changes the ultrastructure of differentiating neurons and alters some enzyme activities in chick embryo cerebrum, and the severity of which is consistently dose-or age-dependent.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.273-277
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• 2005

본 연구는 한국어 어말어미 산출시 나타나는 대뇌 활성화 영역을 살펴보기 위하여 실시되었다. 두 가지 실험이 실시되었다 실험 1은 어말어미의 기본형을 주고 이를 의문형, 명령형으로 산출하는 고립단어 실험을 실시하였다. 통제 조건으로 모음변환조건(C1)과 아라비아문자보기(C2)를 사용하였다. 실험 1의 결과 ‘어말어미-C1’ 조건에서 좌반구의 측두엽과 전두엽부분의 의 활성화 superior temporal gyrus와 inferior frontal gyrus의 활성화가 관찰되었다. ‘어말어미-C2’ 의 조건에서 우반구에서 후두엽의 활성화와 좌반구에서의 후두엽, 전두엽, lingual G, Cuneus, fusiform G, inferior occipital G에서의 활성화를 관찰할 수 있었다. 실험 2는 명령형과 의문형 어미의 형태점화효과와 관련된 대뇌 활성화 영역을 관찰하기 위하여 Er-fMRI 기법을 이용하여 실시되었다. 실험 조건은 어미동일조건, 어간반복조건, 무관련 조건으로 구성되었다. 피험자들은 점화자극이 제시된 후 신호가 제시되고 나오는 표적단어를 의문형 또는 명령으로 산출하도록 하는 과제를 실시하였다. 뇌 활성화 영역을 분석한 결과 의문형과 명령형을 산출할 때의 활성화 영역에서 $^{\ast}^{\ast}^{\ast}$를 볼 때의 영역을 빼기 (substraction)한 결과 공통적으로 좌반구 브로카 영역이 활성화되었고, 의문형과 명령형 안에서 어미동일조건에서 무관련 조건을 뺀 경우에는 좌반구의 superior temporal G 영역의 활성화가 관찰되었다. 이들 결과를 종합해 볼 때 어말어미 산출 그 자체와 직접 관련되는 영역으로는 좌반구의 측두엽과 전두엽 부분이 관찰되었다. 특히 한국어 어말어미 산출시 나타나는 형태점화 양상과 관련된 대뇌영역으로 발견된 브로카 영역에서의 활성화는 어미 변환과 관련된 영역이라기보다는 산출시 관련되는 articulation, motor coordinate관련 영역으로 추정되고, 측두엽의 활성화는 형태소, 의미 관련 지식의 data base로 추정된다. 또한 우반구 전두엽 부분에서 관찰된 활성화는 억제관련 영역으로 짐작된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.184-187
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• 2018

The most important factor in the prevention and treatment of cerebral infarction is to increase cerebral blood flow. Methods for increasing cerebral blood flow include drug-based methods, the surgery, invasive procedures directly inserting medical devices into the artery(NeuroFloTM) and so on. The noninvasive cerebral blood flow increasing device proposed in this paper can reduce the burden on the patient because the probability of complication is low and the treatment level can be determined according to the blood pressure state of the patient. In implementing such a noninvasive cerebral blood flow increasing device, it is important to measure the accurate mean arterial pressure for provision the appropriate level of treatment for the patient. Therefore, to remove a noise, analog and digital filters were used and algorithm for peak value detection, pump control algorithms and so on were.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.188-192
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• 2018

Surgery to increase cerebral blood flow is one of the treatment methods of cerebral infarction. However, invasive methods, such as surgery, may result in postoperative complications or side effects. In order to supplement this invasive method, non-invasive devices have been introduced that use human blood pressure to pressurize the extremities to increase cerebral blood flow. However, the problem of poor speed and accuracy was raised. In this paper, the perfusion index of each arm was measured by applying pressure to both arms using Blood Oxygen Level Sensor to improve the accuracy of measurement and measurement time. The pressure applied to the arm by 75% of the moment when it falls to the leg and the pressure calculated by using the pressure value obtained from the arm. Like the existing blood pressure measuring cerebral blood flow increasing device, the blood flow can be increased by more than 20% and the measurement time can be shortened, so that it can be selectively used for the patient with cerebral infarction.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.1083-1089
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• 2018

Surgery to increase cerebral blood flow is one of the treatment methods of cerebral infarction. In order to supplement this invasive method, non-invasive devices have been introduced that use human blood pressure to pressurize the extremities to increase cerebral blood flow. However, the problem of poor speed and accuracy was raised. In this paper, the perfusion index of each arm is measured by applying pressure to both arms using Blood Oxygen Level Sensor to improve the accuracy of measurement and measurement time. The pressure applied to the arm is calculated by using the pressure value obtained from the arm. Like the existing blood pressure measuring cerebral blood flow increasing device, the blood flow can be increased by more than 20% and the measurement time can be shortened, so that it can be selectively used for the patient with cerebral infarction.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.124-128
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• 2002

The effect of different ethanol feeding protocols on the oxidative stress in liver and blain of rats was studied. The rats were fed 5%-ethanol solution in drinking water (5%-EtOH group) or 2.5g ethanol/kg body wt. once daily intragastrically (2.5g-EtOH group). The levels of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TRARS) and vitamin EI in the liver, cerebrum and cerebellum were measured. In the liver of 5%-EtOH group, the level of TBARS was not changed, whereas vitamin I was significantly increased compared to control group. In the liver of 2.5g-EtOH group, the level of TBARS was significantly increased compared to control group and the vitamin E concentration was not affected. The levels of TBARS were increased and the vitamin E concentrations were decreased significantly both in the cerebrum and cerebellum in 5%-EtOH group as well as in 2.5g-EtOH group. These results show that lipid peroxidation and vitamin E concentration in liver were varied according to the conditions of ethanol treatment, however, the vitamin E contents in cerebrum and cerebellum were affected by both ethanol intoxications used in this study.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.218-226
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• 1998

This study aims at investigating the effects of psychostimulant on functional cerebral localization during the attentional tasks in ADHD. Inclusional subjects were 13 boy between 6-12 years old who met the DSM-IV criteria for ADHD. In each patient, there was a drugfree period(without methyphenidate) and a drug-loaded period(with oral methylphenidate administration), and within each period there was a resting state and a stimulated state with TOVA. Comparisons were made by measuring the amplitudes of four bands(${\alpha}$, ${\beta}$, ${\delta}$, ${\theta}$) of quantitative EEG to see if there were any differences between the drug-free period(resting and stimulated) and the drug-loaded period(resting and stimulated). In the resting state, there was no difference between the drug-free and drug-loaded periods. In the stimulated state with TOVA, the presence of methylphenidate induced significant changes in the theta to beta ratio(${\theta}/{\beta}$) in the right frontal, right parieto-occipital, and left temporal-parietal areas in contrast to the drugf-ree period. These data suggest that methylphenidate shows electrophysiological influences on cerebral topographical activities during the attentional tasks in ADHD.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Inherited Metabolic disease
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.33-43
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• 2005

Purpose: X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy(ALD) is a rare disorder that shows a great deal of phenotypic variability. We subdivided chidhood X-linked ALD patients into several phenotypes by the age at onset, the sites of most severe clinical involvement and the rate of progression of neurologic symptoms. Methods: Thirteen patients who had been diagnosed as X-linked ALD and followed up for at least one year were enrolled from 1996 to 2003. Results: 1. Ten had childhood cerebral ALD, who showed first neurologic symptoms at 7.02 years and progressed rapidly: interval between first symptoms and vegetative state was 1.35 years, and interval from initial symptoms to death was 3.35 years. Treatment with Lorenzo's oil did not prevent neurologic progression. Two patients who underwent umbilical cord blood transplantation died. 2. Two had adolescent cerebral ALD. They had first symptoms at 11.5 years, and showed tendency to progress less rapidly than childhood cerebral form patients. 3. One "Addison only" patient who had adrenal insufficiency without nervous system involvement remained asymptomatic during Lorenzo's oil treatment. 4. All cerebral form patients except one showed the lesions in both parieto-ocipital white matter in brain magnetic resonance imaging. Conclusion: The cerebral ALD was the most common form in childhood and was asoociated with a serious prognosis.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.294-306
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• 1995

There has recently been increasing interest in the use of NMDA receptor antagonists as potential neuroprotective agents for the treatment of ischemic stroke. To evaluate the neuroprotective effect of the selective non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 in focal cerebral ischemia, local cerebral glucose utilization (ICGU) was examined in 15 neuroanatomically discrete regions of the conscious rat brain using the 2-deoxy-D[$^{14}C$] glucose quantitative autoradiographic technique 24 hr after left middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). Animals received MK-801 (5 mg/kg i.v.) or saline vehicle before (20-30 min) or after (30 min) MCAO. Both pretreatment and posttreatment of MK-801 increased occluded/non-occluded ICGU ratio in 7 and 5 of the 15 regions measured, respectively (most notably in cortical structures). Following MK-801 pretreatment, there was evidence of widespread increases in ICGU not only in the non-occluded hemisphere (12 of the 15 areas studied) but also in the occluded hemisphere (13 of the 15 areas studied), while MK-801 postreatment did not significantly increase ICGU both in the normal and occluded hemispheres. These data indicate that MK-801 has a neuroprotective effect in focal cerebral ischemia and demonstrate that MK-801 provides widespread alterations of glucose utilization in conscious animals.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.141-148
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the distribution of clusters and blood flow rate in ADHD SPECT brain blood flow images of children using statistical parametric mapping (SPM99). We studied 64 ADHD children (4-15 y, $8.03{\pm}2.57$ y. male/female:52/12) and compared them with a control group of 12 children (6-l7 y, $9.42{\pm}3.37$ y, male/female:8/4). We injected blood flow tracer $^{99m}Tc$-ethylcysteinate dimer (ECD) as a rCBF agent and took blood flow images after 30 min. by SPECT camera. In the case of hyperperfusion of rCBF in the ADHD group, we found 3 clusters clearly separated at the cingulate gyrus, Rt.cerebral occipital lobe and Lt.cerebellar post. lobe, on probability level 0.05 (P<0.05). Thirty-six ADHD patients with average hyperfusion rates between 18.72-19.30% in each cluster had more increase in blood flow than the average perfusion rate at the Rt. cerebral occipital lobe. These levels were influenced by P-value. In the case of hypoperfusion in the ADHD children, 4 decreased clusters on Lt. and Rt. cerebral frontal lobe, Lt. cerebral claustrum and Rt. cerebral, sup. temporal gyrus at P<0.01 can be seen. The average hypoperfusion rates for the ADHD children were 18.41-18.69% in each cluster, which showed more hypopefusion than the average perfusion rate at the Lt. Cerebrum inf. Frontal gyrus. The perfusion rates and the number of patients were not affected by P-value. The result of this study shows significant hyperpefusion clusters at the probability level of P:0.05 and hypoperfusion clusters at P:0.01. The number of ADHD patients in each clusters and the perfusion rate were not affected by P-value.