• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.84-86
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• 2016

Globus pharyngeus or globus sensation is the painless sensation of a lump in the throat and may be described as a foreign body sensation, a tightening or choking feeling. It is often associated with persistent clearing of the throat, chronic cough, hoarseness, and catarrh. Its etiology remains unclear ; however, laryngopharyngeal reflux may play a role in a subset of patients. Psychogenic problems have often been thought to cause or trigger the globus sensation. Personality studies have found higher levels of alexithymia, neuroticism, and psychological distress (including anxiety, low mood, and somatic concerns) and lower levels of extraversion in patients presenting with globus. Globus patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux exhibited weaker psychological symptoms than non- laryngopharyngeal reflux globus patients, and globus patients who did not respond to proton pump inhibitor had significantly higher anxiety scores. In cases with negative clinical investigations and consistent globus symptom, other treatment strategies, including speech therapy, antidepressants, and cognitive-behavioral therapy, should be considered.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.101-103
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• 2015

There are no standard consensus about treatment results and prognostic factors based on randomized trials for benign vocal fold lesion. Currently, voice therapy is the treatment of choice for vocal nodules, and laryngomicroscopic surgery is for vocal polyps. There are no strong evidences to support it, based on randomized controlled trials, But, it's just a consensus among laryngologist. Considering the pathophysiology of benign vocal cord lesions, cognitive behavioral therapy that corrects the patient's bad voice habits and improves their vocal hygiene could be most important factor for treatment outcomes.

• 한방비만학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.69-74
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• 2003

2003년 2월 28일부터 비만치료를 시작하여 2003년 7월 14일까지 일차적 비만치료를 받은 소아비만환자 1례에서 한방비만치료(체감의이인탕(體感意苡仁湯)복용, 초저열량식이요법, 운동요법, 행동수정요법, 물리치료요법, 지방분해침 등)를 지속적으로 시행한 결과 각종 비만지표, 혈액검사소견, 복부컴퓨터단층촬영상 지방비율 등에서 유의성 있는 변화들이 관찰되었기에 이에 그 경과를 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of mucopolysaccharidosis and rare diseases
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.34-38
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• 2021

Prader-Willi syndrome is a complicated genetic disorder caused by a mutation on chromosome 15q11-13. The disease results in morbid obesity due to hyperphagia, growth disturbance, multiple endocrine problems from hypopituitarism, developmental delay, and cognitive or behavioral problems. Recombinant human growth hormone has been used to improve body composition and muscle mass, which plays a main role in treating patients with Prader-Willi syndrome. We describe previous studies showing the efficacy and safety of growth hormone treatment in children with Prader-Willi syndrome and provide treatment guidelines. Growth hormone therapy could be beneficial for children with Prader-Willi syndrome and improve their quality of life.

• 대한장애인치과학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.84-93
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• 2010

The developmental disorder(intellectual disorder(ID) and autism spectrum disorder(ASD)) can severely impair a patient's ability to communicate and socialize. So they require physical management techniques, pharmacologic agents, and general anesthesia more than the normal at the dental clinic. The behavior therapy is a kind of the psychotherapy and is applied to the patient with behavioral problems. Seoul Dental Hospital for Disabled(SDHD) set up the Dental Behavior Clinic for the patients with developmental disorder and treated 32 patients with ID or ASD, blind. 18 patients were treated according to the ordinary plans, 14 patients stopped the treatment by different reasons. The various results of the treatment were produced by the kind or severity of the diseases, age and cooperation of the patients and the caregivers. Especially, the behavior therapist helped to figure out the characteristics of the patients and to make individualized treatment plans. In the future, it will be necessary to treat more patients and to make the dental behavior therapy objectify. And through the dental behavior therapy, it will be expected that the patients will become more cooperative to the dental clinic and can receive regular check-up peacefully, reducing the frequency of the general anesthesia.

• International Journal of Stem Cells
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.270-282
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• 2022

Background and Objectives: Menkes disease (MNK) is a rare X-linked recessive disease, caused by mutations in the copper transporting ATP7A gene that is required for copper homeostasis. MNK patients experience various clinical symptoms including neurological defects that are closely related to the prognosis of MNK patients. Neural stem cells (NSCs) in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) produce new neurons throughout life, and defects in DG neurogenesis are often correlated with cognitive and behavioral problems. However, neurodevelopmental defects in the DG during postnatal period in MNK have not been understood yet. Methods and Results: Mottled-brindled (Mo^Br/y) mice (MNK mice) and littermate controls were used in this study. In vivo microCT imaging and immunohistochemistry results demonstrate that blood vasculatures in hippocampus are abnormally decreased in MNK mice. Furthermore, postnatal establishment of NSC population and their neurogenesis are severely compromised in the DG of MNK mice. In addition, in vitro analyses using hippocampal neurosphere culture followed by immunocytochemistry and immunoblotting suggest that neurogenesis from MNK NSCs is also significantly compromised, corresponding to defective neurogenic gene expression in MNK derived neurons. Conclusions: Our study is the first reports demonstrating that improper expansion of the postnatal NSC population followed by significant reduction of neurogenesis may contribute to neurodevelopmental symptoms in MNK. In conclusion, our results provide new insight into early neurodevelopmental defects in MNK and emphasize the needs for early diagnosis and new therapeutic strategies in the postnatal central nerve system damage of MNK patients.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.295-301
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• 1996

환청을 보이는 정신분열증 환자 27명을 대상으로 환청의 특성(주체, 내용, 환청에 대한 이해, 환청의 심한 정도), 환청에 대한 인지행동반응의 내용 및 그 빈도, good/fair copers와 poor copers의 환청의 특성 및 인지행동반응의 비교, 세가지 변인에 따른 인지행동반응의 차이를 살펴봄으로서 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1) 환청의 주체는 모르는 사람, 내용은 박해적인 것, 감정반응은 부정적인 것과 혼합된 것, 그리고 환청에 대한 이해는 정신역동적인 것이 가장 많았다. 2) 환청에 대한 반응중 가장 많이 사용된 인지반응은 억압, 무시와 같은 건강한 반응이었으며 가장 많이 사용된 행동반응은 생리적 각성을 증가시키는 반응이었다. 3) Good/fair copers 의 특징은 poor copers에 비하여 환청의 정도가 경하고 또 환청에 대한 병식이 있는 사람들이 많다는 것이었으며 인지행동반응에 있어서도 무반응이나 몰두와 같은 건강치 못한 인지반응과 탐닉이나 증상적 행동과 같은 건강치 못한 행동반응은 훨씬 적게, 그리고 생리적 각성을 증가시키는 건강한 행동반응은 훨씬 많이 사용하고 있었다. 4) 세가지 변인 중에서 환청에 대한 병식유무가 인지행동반응의 차이를 결정 짖는 가장 중요한 요인임을 시사 받을 수 있었다. 상기 결과는 환청을 경험하는 정신분열증 환자들이 단순히 피해자로서 수동적으로 머물러 있는 것이 아니라 이질적이고 침투적인 현상을 나름대로 받아들이고 극복하기 위하여 다양한 대응방식을 보이게 되며 이와 같은 대응방식의 형태 및 그 빈도를 결정짖는 중요한 요인이 환청에 대한 이해일 수 있음을 시사해 주고 있다.

• 신경정신의학
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.190-208
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• 2018

Objectives To initiate and develop a treatment guideline in multidisciplinary approaches for related professions who are either working and/or living with children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders who show behavioral problems. Methods To collect and reflect opinions from multiple professions who assumedly have different interventions or mediations on behavioral problems, a self-report survey and Focus Group Interview (FGI) were conducted for a group of child and adolescent psychiatrists, behavioral therapists, special education teachers, social welfare workers, and caregivers. Results According to a self-report survey and FGI results from multiple professional groups, aggressive behavior is the mostly common behavioral problem necessitating urgent interventions. However, both mainly used intervention strategies and effective treatment methods were different depending on professional backgrounds, such as pharmacological treatment, parent training, and behavior therapy, even though they shared an importance of improving communication skills. In addition, there was a common understanding of necessity to include parent training in a guideline. Lastly the data suggested lack of proper treatment facilities, qualified behavior therapists, and lack of standardized treatment guideline in the field needed to be improved for a quality of current therapeutic services. Conclusion It is supported that several subjects should be included in the guidelines, such as how to deal with aggressive behavior, parent training, and biological aspects of neurodevelopmental disorders. Also, it is expected that publishing the guideline would be helpful to above multiple professions as it is investigated that there are lack of treatment facility and qualified behavioral therapists compared to need at the moment.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제43권
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• pp.157-192
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• 2000

This Study concerns therapeutic effects of the Therapy Dog Assisted Program (TDAP) on autistic children. Subjects participating in the study are two groups of Korean elementary schoolboys of the same age (twelve years old) : an experimental group and a control1ed group of equal number of children (sex children in total). Thirteen different sessions of TDAP interventions were performed over a three-month period. Evidence from the present study indicates that the children participating in the TDAP program achieved a greater degree of improvement in their social interactions as well as in their individual activities in comparison with the preTDAP counterparts. The present study also demonstrates significant changes in the TDAP group in comparison with those in the non-participating control group. The results from this study supports that the proposition that the Therapy Dog Assisted Program can be applied effectively in treating people experiencing severely damaged social functioning. Such a program may serve as an effective treatment modality in a variety of clinical social work settings. The questions of long-term effects of the TDAP intervention and possible interference with other behavioral side-effects on the part of the intervened subjects need to be addressed in future studies.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.27-38
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• 2013

Healthcare providers in Korea are using conservative pharmacological treatment for Alzheimer's disease (AD) to delay the progress of the disease or to mitigate its behavioral and neurological symptoms. However, there is a growing need for interventions using practical non-pharmacologic treatment, as the effects of pharmacological treatments has faced limitations. This research provided a cognitive rehabilitation program to 3 AD patients and used a multiple baseline design across subjects to examine the effects. Performing reality orientation therapy (ROT) for 1 cycle (4 weeks) resulted in a slight increase in accuracy and responsiveness on an orientation task, mainly with patients with mild cases of AD. Also, in the sub-domain of the Korean-Mini Mental Status Examination performed to examine changes in cognitive ability, there were minimal changes in place orientation. In functional communication, however, there were no significant differences before and after the intervention. In conclusion, we found that ROT was an effective intervention for improving accuracy and responsiveness in the orientation of patients with mild cases of AD. In future studies, the effect of non-pharmacological interventions can be evaluated more reliably by examining the interaction effects of sample size, length of the intervention, outcome measurements, and pharmacological intervention.