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Assessment of Physiological Responses for the Phobia in a Virtual Environment

  • Koh, Ik-Soo;Kim, Sun-I.
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.73-79
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    • 2002
  • The goals of this study are twofold: To investigate non-phobics'and Phobics'Physiological response in virtual environments. and to analyze the trend of phobics' Physiology during virtual reality treatment. As a measure of Physiology. heart rate, skin resistance. and skin temperature were acquired. The data of two group subjects were analyzed: twenty-two non-Phobic subjects (M=32.94 years). thirty-six subjects with fear of flying (M=40.12 yearn) who met the DSM-lV criteria for a fear of flying. As a result. skin resistance showed significant differences between non-Photics and phobics. T(56) =2.978, P〈0.01 And the physiological responses of 33 subjects among the Phobics. who succeed to fly without medicine after virtual reality treatment, showed a gradual trend toward the non-Phobics Physiological responses as therapy sessions went on. In this study. Physiological monitoring. skin resistance appeared to be useful both in understanding the Physiological state of Phobic individuals and in evaluating the results of treatment in virtual reality Psychotherapy.

National Research Trends Regarding Use of the Four Pillars of Destiny in the Counseling Realm (상담 장면에서의 명리의 활용에 대한 국내 연구 동향 분석)

  • Hong, Sunggyu;Kwak, Hui-Yong;Kim, Jong-Woo;Chung, Sun-Yong
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.289-299
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    • 2020
  • Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate current research trends of Four Pillars of Destiny and verify its values and potential in the counselling scene, as the Four Pillars of Destiny's territory has been expanding to counselling, medical and psychiatric realm nowadays. Methods: The studies were searched from psychotherapy to general consultation, directly or indirectly related to counseling and Four Pillars of Destiny. Twenty-one published research studies were selected for analysis. The studies were categorized into 7 groups, meta-analysis, comparison with other personality tests, user's trend analysis, utilization in job counseling, disease prediction study, utilization in treatment counseling, and use in Korean medicine. Results: The selected studies attempted to expand Four Pillars of Destiny's usage through combination with other fields such as artificial intelligence, Korean medicine, and personality test. Furthermore by analyzing Four Pillars of Destiny itself to extract its key elements in counseling, such as therapeutic counseling factors and occupational counseling factors. Conclusions: At present, there are no standard use of Four Pillars of Destiny in counseling scene, for no large-scale research has been conducted or completed on this subject. This current status quo leads this paper to end up just understanding the counseling factors and possibilities of Four Pillars of Destiny rather than its psychological theory and clinical effect. However, this research trend analysis will be helpful in preparing future studies investigating Four Pillars of Destiny's counseling effect, application in the counseling scene and its psychological theory. Also, further studies, including confirmation of the theory through the operational definition, prospective research, control study, statistical technique are required in order to evaluate Four Pillars of Destiny's psychological theory and its effects to verify its use in clinical scenes.

A Case Report on Panic Disorder Patient Using the 'MRM (Mentalizing the Rooms of Mind)' and Korean Medicine Therapy (한의치료와 '마음의 방 그리기'를 활용한 공황장애 치험 1례 보고)

  • Kim, Jeesu;Cheong, Moon Joo;Lee, Ga-Won;Lyu, Yeoung-Su;Kang, Hyung Won
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.197-211
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    • 2020
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to introduce the progress of treatment and improve clinical use after conducting Mentalizing the Rooms of Mind, the main technique of Mindfulness & Loving Beingness psychotherapy, for a patient with panic disorder. Methods: We conducted a Mentalizing the Rooms of Mind for 10 sessions on an age 23 female diagnosed with panic disorder based on the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. After receiving consent from the subject, through chart review, the progress of treatment was observed focusing on the MMPI-2 and CSEI-s (The Core Seven Emotions Inventory-short form) conducted pre- and post-treatment. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Wonkwang University Sanbon Hospital (WMCSB202007-55). Results: 1. The MMPI-2 clinical scales of an age 23 female with panic disorder showed a 7 (Pt)-1 (Hs)-3 (Hy) profile pre-treatment, but for post-treatment, the scale showed 1 (Hs)-3 (Hy) profile, and the 7 (Pt) scale showed significant decline. In the MMPI-2 reconstructed clinical scales, RC7 (Dysfunctional Negative Emotions) and RC8 (Aberrant Experiences) showed significant decline. 2. In the pre- and post-treatment MMPI-2 content scales, Anxiety, Fears, Obsessiveness, Social Discomfort, and Work Interference scores decreased, showing overall positive stability. On the MMPI-2 supplementary scales, the Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder scores decreased, and the Ego Strength increased, resulting in improved overall psychological adaptation. 3. Pre- and post-treatment of an age 23 female with panic disorder, CSEI-s showed significant decline of 恐, 驚, 悲, and 思. So it seems that the emotions caused by Chiljeongsang (七情傷) were more stable than before treatment. Conclusions: As shown above, the treatment of panic disorder through Mentalizing the Rooms of Mind, a major technique of Mindfulness & Loving Beingness psychotherapy, showed positive changes in MMPI-2 as well as improvement of the subjective symptoms. Thus, Mentalizing the Rooms of Mind has high clinical use, and it seems that it is necessary to create a manual for this in the future.

The Extraction of Quality Evaluation Elements for Medical Serious Game (의료용 기능성 게임의 품질평가 요소 추출)

  • Yoon, Seon-Jeong;Ryu, Mi-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2013
  • As the Medical Serious Games are recently proven effective, the quality evaluation of the game has become an important issue. In quality evaluation, objective criteria and evaluation elements are important. Quality evaluation of the serious game is divided into two areas : the technical (from the point of view of Program) and the non-technical (from the point of view of Content). In this study, we developed the quality evaluation element of the non-technical area to the psychotherapy and the health & rehab game according to developing process of quality evaluation model. We extracted five evaluation elements from the two kinds of medical games, and interviewed with medical experts in order to ensure the validity of them. The goodness of fit tests for the elements mentioned above were verified by conducting. Chi-square test results for the two groups did not differ significantly. In conclusion, we expect to take advantage of the results of this study to design and develop serious games for medical treatment.

Cognitive Processing Therapy as a First-line Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (인지처리치료: 외상후 스트레스 장애의 일차 치료)

  • Jin-Hee, Choi;Hyung-Seok, So;Soonjo, Hwang;Ji-Woo, Suk;Hayun, Choi;Seung-Hoon, Lee;EunYoung, Lee
    • Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.80-98
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    • 2022
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is well known to have a limited response to drug treatment. Many recently published clinical care guidelines recommend trauma-focused psychotherapies such as cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and prolonged exposure therapy (PE) as first-line treatment and medication such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors and venlafaxine as second-line treatment. Current review introduces the session composition and contents of CPT and presents various CPT studies that show therapeutic effect for civilian and veterans/military with PTSD. In order for clinicians to help effectively patients with PTSD, it is necessary to learn and actively use evidence-based trauma-focused psychotherapies including CPT and PE.

A Clinical Study of Panic attack and Anticipatory anxiety on Panic disorder patients (공황증(恐慌症) 환자의 발작강도 및 예기불안에 대한 한의학적 임상 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Jun;Kim, Jin-Hyung;Lyu, Heui-Yeong;Hong, Sung-Su;Kim, Tae-Heon;Lyu, Yeoung-Su;Kang, Hyung-Won
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2005
  • Objective : This study was to evaluate the clinical improvement of Panic attack and Anticipatory anxiety on Panic Disorder patients after Oriental medical treatment. Methods : We compared post-treatment with pre-treatment on Panic attack and Anticipatory anxiety with Thirty eight Panic Disorder patientsafter Oriental medical treatment - acupunture, herbal medicine, oriental psychotherapy. Results and Conclusions : 1. Foremost herbal medicines were Siwuanshentang(四物安神揚)(39.47%), Qingxinwendantang(情心溫膽揚)(13.16%). Types of demonstration weredeficiency of the heart blood(心血不足)(39.47%), deficiency of qi and blood in the heart and spleen(心脾兩虛)(28.95%), timidity die to insufficiency of qi and deficiency of blood of the heart(心脫虛法)(15.79%), stagnation of phlegm(痰獨阻滯)(13.16%), deficiency of liver-yin and kidney-yin(肝腎陰虛)(2.63%) in order. 2. The physical constitutions in Thirty eight Panic Disorder patients weretwenty nine of Taiyinren(76.3%),six of Shaoyinren(15.8%), three of Shaoyangren(7.9%) in order. 3. This oriental medical treatment was effective in Panic attack from $7.68{\pm}0.87$ to $2.68{\pm}1.613$ and in Anticipatory anxiety from $7.47{\pm}1.006$ to $2.47{\pm}1.841$ in comparison post-treatment with pre-treatment. 4. A percentage of subjective improvement was 72.6%. There were 18.4% in the same, 15.8% in slight improvement, 18.4% in medium improvement, 47.4% in remarkable improvement.

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Ten Year Literature on Psychological and Behavioral Interventions Against Cancer: a Terms Analysis

  • Feng, Rui;Chai, Jing;Wang, De-Bin;Xia, Yi;Cheng, Peng-Lai;Dai, Zhao-Yang
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.13 no.10
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    • pp.5171-5176
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    • 2012
  • We here performed a systematic review of PBIC literature using terms analysis in a hope of both identifying potential trends and patterns and exploring methods leveraging traditional literature reviews in this specific area. Articles meeting inclusion criteria were retrieved from PUBMED and translated into dichotomized article records representing presence or non-presence of MeSH terms and a metric consisting of numbers of times of co-occurrence between all pairs of terms identified using a self-designed program. The occurrence of and relations among the terms were calculated and visualized using Excel2007 and UCINET respectively. A total of 1,742 terms were identified from 997 articles retrieved. Put in a descending order, the lines representing the times of term occurrence formed a typical hyperbolic curve; when plotted along the x-axis of whole MESH terms, the lines clustered within four specific regions. Comparison of term occurrence between 2002 and 2011 revealed priority changes in population and subjects (from general groups to priority groups), intervention approaches (from medicine to exercise and psychotherapy), methodology and techniques (from cohort studies to randomized controlled trials) and outcomes (from health and mental health to quality of life, depression etc.). Networks of the terms featured a number of closely linked groups of topics including method and questionnaires, therapy and outcomes, survival management, psychological assessment and intervention, behavioral intervention (individual and community oriented). Terms analysis revealed interesting trends and patterns about PBIC publications and both the analysis methods and findings have implications for future research and literature reviews.

Clinical Safety of Chemotherapy for Elderly Cancer Patients Complicated with Hypertension

  • Qian, Ya-Dong;Xu, Xu;Wang, Lin;Huang, Xin-En
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.15 no.22
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    • pp.9875-9877
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    • 2014
  • Objective: To access the safety of chemotherapy for elderly cancer patients complicated with hypertension. Methods: Elderly cancer patients who were complicated with hypertension and treated by chemotherapy were recruited. All patients were treated by chemotherapy after an intervention on hypertension by psychotherapy, exercise guidance, salt regulation and nutrition support, therapy on hypertension, as well as prevention on hypertension associated complications. Results: In 68 eligible patients, two suspended chemotherapy because of adverse reactions and 4 because of disease progression. The remaining 62 patients completed chemotherapy smoothly based on good hypertension control. Conclusion: With effective control of blood pressure, chemotherapy for elderly cancer patients complicated with hypertension is generally safe.

Circulation, priventive medicine, Korean Oriental medicine Taoisma (도(道)와 정신치료에 대한 고찰)

  • Ku Byung-Su
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.167-182
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    • 1997
  • The fallowing result are obtained through study on the Dao expressed in Korean Oriental medicine and Taoism 1. Putting importance in all, circuration, preventive medicine and psychosomatic medicine is similar to Taoism and Korean Oriental medicine.2. Perfect understanding of No-striving and Emptiness in Taoisma and expension of meaning of Self-transcendence and Empathy can be of use to medical cure.3. Perfect understanding of Dao is essential in maturity of therapist.4. Psychotherapy of Korean Oriental medicine agree with Psychoanalysis and Daseinanalysis from the point of view of the holism.5. Korean oriental medicine is medicine of Dao and Dao is a great help to recover patient's heath.6. The disrase come to dishamony of Qi in Korean Oriental medicine and Taoism.Through the above result, the new cure will come on the basis of Dao, and it will need enlightening Dao to prevent from psychosis.

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The Development of Virtual Reality Therapy(VRT) System for the Treatment of Acrophobia and Therapeutic Case (가상현실을 이용한 고소공포증 치료 시스템의 개발 및 치료 예)

  • 신민보;장동표;구정훈;조항준;안희범;이재민;최영희;서병설;김인영
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.119-126
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    • 2001
  • 가상현실은 인간과 컴퓨터가 서로 커뮤니케이션할 수 있도록 하는 새로운 테크놀로지이다. 이는 사용자로 하여금 컴퓨터로 만들어진 가상의 삼차원 환경 속에서 보고, 듣고, 느끼며 그리고 가상환경과 상호 작용할 수 있도록 한다. 본 논문에서, 우리는 정신치료 분야에 가상현실을 도입하고 이를 이용한 고소공포증 노출치료 시스템을 개발하였다. 이러한 가상현실을 이용한 정신치료는 과거의 전통적인 방법보다 더 안전하고 시간적, 경제적으로 효율적이라는 장점을 지니고 있다. 본 시스템은 개인용 컴퓨터를 기반으로 하여 도심 한 가운데에 있는 번지 점프대를 배경으로 가상장면을 구성하였다. 그리고 철 구조물 옆에 사방이 개방된 난간이 있는 리프트를 만들어 가상환경 속에서 피험자가 높이감을 경험할 수 있게 하였다. 또한 이러한 가상현실 정신치료를 이용하여 높이에 대한 두려움을 지니고 있는 환자에게 임상실험을 실시하여 그 주관적 치료효과를 입증하였다.

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