Tohoku University focuses on cognitive training for persons with dementia
SEFAS' collaboration partner, Smart Aging Research Centre, is doing several studies to test the effect of brain training to improve the cognitive ability for persons with dementia and other groups for elderly people.
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- Patients with dementia, parkinson, schizofrenia, post-poerative聽persons聽and also healthy elders is聽showing an incresed cognitive function after applying our聽brain training programmes. This is聽uttered by聽assosiate professor Rui Nouchi who visited SEFAS at the end of October.
The brain training programmes are developed by researchers at the聽Smart Aging Research Centre at Tohoku University (see fact box) and is聽based on pen and paper exercises and is supposed to be聽performed for 15 minutes five days a week over a certain number of weeks. The resarch lab Nouchi is employed at is led by聽professor Ryuta Kawashima.聽Based on their reserach results Kawashima has聽also聽developned聽brain training聽games for Nintendo.
Several international reserachers has questioned the effect of these brain traning games, but Nouchi says their results show that the brain activitiy and flow is increasing.
- The patients are also experiensing a feeling of success when they master these games, Nouchi explains.聽
The aim of the brain training programmes is to increase the cognitive function and as a consequence peoples quality of life.
Nouchi is a researcher at聽 at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. SEFAS has visisted聽Tohoku University at several occations and work together to innovate how we think about elderly care and smart solutions.聽
Listen to聽Nouchi when he tells about their research results.
Chosen publications
Nouchiet al., Trials, 2012
Nouchiet al., Plos One, 2012
Sato,Nouchietal.,.Plos One, 2015
Nouchiet al.,Frontiers in Human NueroScience, 2016
Kulason, Nouchiet al.,Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2018