Study of Oral Stereognosis Ability
Project/Area Number |
25862077
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Social dentistry
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Research Institution | Tokyo Medical and Dental University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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Keywords | 認知症 / 近赤外線分光法 / 口腔内認知能力 / 近赤外分光法 / 前頭前野 / NIRS |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Meals are one of the great pleasures of the elderly in daily life. Along with the increase in the elderly population, elderly people with dementia are also increasing. Patients with dementia have many obstacles such as cognitive difficulties and forgetfulness mainly, it is not an exception even in the mouth, there are many cases that the recognition of food is deteriorated. Recently it has been known that it is related to dementia prevention by rehabilitation of mouth. We examined the evaluation of mouth recognition ability in the state of blood flow in the brain using a certain object and examined the new screening evaluation of dementia prevention. As a result, it turned out that the recognition ability was found to be different depending on the form.
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Report
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Research Products
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