Abstract
Brain Activity Sensing to Verify Effects of Facial Image Reconstruction Puzzle—Verification by Young Students
Highlights
In Japan’s aging society, the proportion of people with dementia and dementia reserve in elderly people aged 65 and over is predicted to increase to about 25% in 2025.(1) In addition, the demand for nursing care personnel is increasing, but the supply does not meet the demand, with the gap between supply and demand anticipated to widen in the future.(2) For these reasons, it is necessary to take measures to reduce the burden on caregivers.In nursing homes, functional training for both exercise and cognition is carried out to maintain the physical function of the elderly
It has been reported that cognitive training such as solving puzzles is the most effective preventive measure for dementia.(3) In addition, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which is considered as a dementia reserve group, reportedly causes a greater memory capacity decrease for human faces than for buildings.(4) On the basis of these facts, we have developed an application for cognitive function training
We focus on θ waves, because the brain activity derived from concentration is expected to appear while solving the facial image reconstruction puzzle
Summary
In Japan’s aging society, the proportion of people with dementia and dementia reserve in elderly people aged 65 and over is predicted to increase to about 25% in 2025.(1) In addition, the demand for nursing care personnel is increasing, but the supply does not meet the demand, with the gap between supply and demand anticipated to widen in the future.(2) For these reasons, it is necessary to take measures to reduce the burden on caregivers.In nursing homes, functional training for both exercise and cognition is carried out to maintain the physical function of the elderly. Regarding the prevention of dementia, cognitive function training, such as giving intellectual problems (e.g., calculations and puzzles) to the elderly, is performed. The questions used for cognitive training are usually devised by facility staff. These questions need to be updated every time they are used, placing an additional burden on the staff in addition to their normal care work. It has been reported that cognitive training such as solving puzzles is the most effective preventive measure for dementia.(3) In addition, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which is considered as a dementia reserve group, reportedly causes a greater memory capacity decrease for human faces than for buildings.(4) On the basis of these facts, we have developed an application for cognitive function training (hereinafter referred to as the developed application)
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