2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A development of the system on the assessment of cognitive function in correspondence with the MRI and SPECT in brain damaged patients
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18530537
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Clinical psychology
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| Research Institution | University of the Ryukyus |
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Principal Investigator |
TOMINAGA Daisuke University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Education, Professor (00112160)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HYODO Akio University of the Ryukyus, Department of Medicine, Associate of Professor (40167606)
HIRAI Seigi International University of Nagasaki, Department of Human Sociology, 教授 (50039434)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Keywords | brain damage / neuropsychological test / neuroimage / cognitive disorder / psychometrics |
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| Research Abstract |
The assessment of cognitive function of brain damaged patients is different from elderly as well as dementia. Brain damaged patients reveal various aspects of cognitive dysfunction by some variables of the damaged region, brain pathology, the process of illness and so on. We designed the brief neuropsychological test battery (The Ryukyu University Version) on global cognitive dysfunction of the brain damaged patients using Modified mini-mental test (3MS), Digit symbol test, Stroop test, Trail making test, Digit span test, Block design test. We found these test battery is more useful tool than a simple neuropsychological test to assess the cognitive function of brain damaged patients in detail. Moreover, we discussed the assessment of cognitive dysfunction in terms of the degree and region of the brain damage using the neuroimage of MRI and SPECT
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