| Budget Amount *help |
¥14,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,500,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Voluntary control movement of the lips is important as a lip-function to enhance the QOL, and it is necessary to clarify the property of voluntary control movement of the lips. In this study, we can estimate lip-control ability by a system using a visual feedback which we constructed for this study. We investigated the lip-control ability in the elderly and the brain blood flow during voluntary control movement of the lips. From our results, in the elderly the lip-control ability was not influenced by directions of lip-force or gender. In older males the lip-control ability was lower than that in younger males. The cortical activity of a large area was involved in the voluntary control movement of the lips. It is suggested the importance of maintaining voluntary lip-control ability in the elderly.
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