• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.64-69
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• 2017

Purpose: Breathing can be controlled either unconsciously or consciously. In Asian countries, various conscious breathing-control techniques have been practiced for many years to promote health and wellbeing. However, the exact mechanism underlying these techniques has not yet been established. The purpose of this study is to explore the physiological mechanism explaining how conscious breathing control could affect the autonomic nervous system, brain activity, and mental changes. Methods: The coupling phenomenon among breathing rhythm, heart rate variability, and brain waves was explored theoretically based on the research hypothesis and a review of the literature. Results: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia is a well-known phenomenon in which heart rate changes to become synchronized with breathing: inhalation increases heart rate and exhalation decreases it. HRV BFB training depends on conscious breathing control. During coherent sinusoidal heart rate changes, brain ${\alpha}$ waves could be enhanced. An increase in ${\alpha}$ waves was also found and the synchronicity between heart beat rhythm and brain wave became strengthened during meditation. Conclusion: In addition to the effect of emotion on breathing patterns, conscious breathing could change heart beat rhythms and brainwaves, and subsequently affect emotional status.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.275-283
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• 2001

This study was performed to extract and analyze the biosignals to find the relationship between the level of anesthesia and the variations of physiological parameters during epidural anesthesia. Seven male and twenty female patients(ages from 45 to 70 years old) were participated for the experiment, and ECGs, PPGs, SKTs, SCRs were obtained during anesthesia. As results, the HF/LF ratios of HRV were decreased after the injection anesthetics. For skin temperatures, values measured from the palm was reduced and the temperatures from four channels, measured from armpit through the right side of the body, were increased. SCRs were decreased for all channels after the injection of anesthetics. However the heart rate and PPGs showed no significant changes. It was concluded that the injection of anesthetics result the changes in biosignals, and it could be explained by the degree of the sympathetic and/or parasympathetic nerve activities. Results of this study could provide the valuable information for the estimation of level for the spinal and general anesthesia, and could be extended to the development of a system which could quantify the level of anesthesia.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.136-140
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• 2001

본 연구는 절전기능과 인체순응을 고려하여 개발된 에어컨의 쾌적기류를 평가하기 위해 기존 에어컨에 활용되어지고 있는 정속풍, 변동풍과 새롭게 적용되고 잇는 개발풍을 비교하고자 수행하였다. 20명의 남녀 피험자를 대상으로 심전도를 측정하고 HRV 분석을 실시하여 남녀별로 비교한 결과 남녀 모두 개발풍, 변동풍, 정속풍의 순서로 HF/LF 값이 높게 나타났으며, 여성의 경우 정속풍은 무자극 조건에서보다 낮은 HF/LF 값을 나타내었다. 그리고 무자극에 대해서는 여성의 경우보다 남성의 경우가 변동풍과 개발풍의 기류제어 조건에서 크게 반응하였다. 남녀모두를 평균한 기류자극별 비교분석에서는 개발풍에서 가장 높은 HF/LF 값을 보였으며, 개발풍과 변동풍이 정속풍에 대하여 유의미한 차이를 나타내었다. 개인별로 각 자극에 대한 HF/LF 값을 계산하열 각 조건들에 대한 선호도를 조사한 결과, 14명이 개발풍에서 가장 높은 HF/LF 값을 나타내었고, 6명의 피험자는 변동풍에서 가장 높은 HF/LF 값을 보였다. 본 연구의 결과 새롭게 제시된 개발풍이 기존의 정속풍이나 변동풍에 대하여 더욱 쾌적한 기류임을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.313-319
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• 2001

본 연구는 시뮬레이터 실험에서 필수적으로 발생하는 Simulator Sickness(SS)를 평가하기 위하여 동적 시뮬레이터에서 일정한 속도(60km/h)로 1시간 주행했을 때 Simulator Sickness Questionnaire(SSQ)를 이용하여 주관적 Sickness를 평가하고 생리적 반응으로 심박 변동량(HRV)과 피부온도 및 피부저항을 측정하여 성별, Simulator 수준에 따라 비교 분석하였다. 분석 결과 동적 시뮬레이터에서 주행시 주관적인 Simulator Sickness는 안정에 비해 시간이 지남에 따라 45분까지 선형적으로 증가하여UT고, 여자와 sick군이 남자와 nonsick군에 비해 더 높았으며 sickness 수준간에서는 유의성이 나타났지만 남녀간의 유의한 차이는 없었다. 생리적 반응은 시간에 따른 변화는 없었으나 안정에 비해 R-R 간격의 감소, (LF+MF)/total 및 (LF+MF)/HF의 증가로부터 교감 신경이 활성화되었으며 피부온도의 감소와 피부저항의 증가로부터 긴장도가 커짐을 알 수 있었다. 주행 50분 이후는 HF/total가 감소하여 부교감 신경의 작용이 저하되는 것으로 나타났다.. 성별, sickness수준에 따라서는 남녀간에는 부분적으로 유의한 차이가 있었고 평균 R-R 간격에서만 sick군이 nonsick군보다 유의하게 낮았다.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.331-335
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• 2013

This study investigated the relationship between drinking and health factors including vaso-aging degree, stress index, stress resistance, fatigue and activity of autonomic nerve system etc. The subjects were 20,925 persons who had received health examination by Korean Medicine and submitted questionnaires about drinking history, for 8 months from March to November. The vaso-aging degree were measured by APG (Accelerated Photoplethysmograph). The stress index and resistance, fatigue and activity of autonomic nerve system were measured by HRV (Heart Rate Variability). We analyzed the relationship between drinking and various variables by chi-square test with SPSS ver. 19.0. Regarding the relationship between drinking and vaso-aging degree, there was significant differences(p<0.05). But regarding the relationship between drinking and the other factors, there were no statistically differences. This study suggests that the vaso-aging degree is affected by drinking alcohol.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1958-1962
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• 2005

A driver's emotion is a very important factor of safe driving. This paper classified a driver's emotion into 3 major emotions, can be occur when driving a car: Surprise, Joy, Tired. And It evaluated the classifier using Hidden Markov Models, which have observation sequence as bio-signals. It used the 2-D emotional plane to classfiy a human's general emotion state. The 2-D emotional plane has 2 axes of pleasure-displeasure and arsual-relaxztion. The used bio-signals are Galvanic Skin Response(GSR) and Heart Rate Variability(HRV), which are easy to acquire and reliable. We classified several moving pictures into 3 major emotions to evaluate our HMM system. As a result of driving simulations for each emotional situations, we can get recognition rates of 67% for surprise, 58% for joy and 52% for tired.

• International Journal of Vascular Biomedical Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.10-16
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• 2005

Because patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) have depressed vagal modulation and the mortality risk from acute myocardial infarction is lower in patients with higher vagal modulation, methods that can increase vagal modulation are desirable in patients with CAD. We intended to inspect the effect of recumbent posture on vagal modulation. By using angiography, 33 patients with abnormal (CAD group) and 33 patients with normal coronary arteries (control group) were studied. The nonlinear as well as the linear characteristics of heart rate variability (HRV) were analyzed on these patients in three recumbent postures: namely, the supine, right lateral decubitus, and left lateral decubitus postures. The lower the normalized high-frequency power (nHF) in the supine or left lateral decubitus posture, the higher the increase in the nHF when the posture was changed from supine or left lateral decubitus to right lateral decubitus in both groups of patients. Right lateral decubitus posture can lead to the highest vagal modulation and the lowest sympathetic modulation among the three recumbent postures in both normal and patients with CAD. Therefore, the right lateral decubitus posture can be used as an effective physiologic vagal enhancer in patients with CAD.

• The Journal of Korean Obstetrics and Gynecology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.168-178
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• 2008

Purpose: To verify the relationship of SA2000E results and acupuncture treatment efficacy on postmenopausal women. Methods: Longitudinal analyze relationship of the SA2000E results and hot flush VAS score changes of a clinical trial participants in 2006. Results: Someone who has high Vaso-aging degree by SA2000E represented better hot flash VAS decreasing efficacy. And the diminution rate of hot flash VAS, after 1week from the 1st treatment day was 0.311(p=0.0001), and finally 0.672(p = 0.0396). There are no statistical differences between study group and control group. Conclusion: Clinical trial participant who has better Vaso-physiological function present more hot flash reduce efficacy by acupuncture therapy. Vaso-aging degree by SA2000E could be use as a predictor of acupuncture hot flash treatment result.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.489-490
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• 2008

본 고에서는 체내 심실신호를 농하여 신경학적 분석 및 다형성의 측면에서 심실세동이 일어나는 것을 예측하는 분석 알고리즘을 설계하였다. 신경학적 측면에서는 시계열 신호의 Peak to Peak Interval을 예측법과 0.15Hz를 기준으로 HRV 신호의 AR Burg 모델링을 통하여 고주파성과 저주파성을 나누어 교감신경과 부교감신경의 활동성 통한 신경학적 예측법을 제시하였으며 또한 체내 심실신호의 비선형적 특성을 고려한 Fractal Dimension을 생성시킴으로서 주기성의 특성과 다형성 통한 예측법을 제시하였다. 체내 심전도를 기반으로 Simulation 하였으며 각 분석별 조합을 통하여 최적의 예측 구조를 찾고자 하였다. 의학적 의미가 있는 민감도와 특이도를 판별하였으며 예측을 위한 수행시간을 실험하였다. 이를 통하여 자율신경 활성도와 다형성 판별을 조합한 방법이 심실세동 예측을 위한 민감도의 측면에서 가장 우수함을 나타내었고 시뮬레이션을 위만 시뮬레이터(Simulator) UI(User Interface)를 제시하였다.

• Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.47-54
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• 2012

Objective : This study was designed to analyze the results of autonomic nervous activity(ANA) and autonomic nervous balance(ANB) by heart rate variability test. The subjects were workers in the automobile manufacturing company. Method : The subjects consisted of 32,049 workers who had answered about questionnaires of a job position, age, smoking, drinking, exercise history and sex. The ANA and ANB were examined by SA3000P. I analyzed the differences of ANA and ANB according to job positions, ages, the state of smoking, drinking, exercise and sex by T-test or ANOVA with SPSS ver. 17.0. Results : Regarding the differences of ANA among job positions, the ANA was lowest in sales positions, highest in production workers. Among ages, the ANA was highest in 50s, lowest in 30s. In smoking, the ANA was higher in non-smoking group. In drinking, the ANA was higher in non-drinking group. In exercise, the ANA was higher in exercise group. In sex, there was no significant difference. The case of ANB, there were no significant differences except for ages. Among ages, the ANB was highest in 20s, the lowest in 40s. Conclusion : According to these results, we should establish the methods of controlling ANA and ANB from the perspective of Korean traditional medicine.