Research on Brain Blood Flow during Taichi-quan by Using fNIRS
Author: Hideyuki KOKUBO1,2, Mikio YAMAMOTO1,2, Hidetsugu KATSURAGAWA2, Akihiko KAMADA3, Kimiko KAWANO4,1,2, Shuichi HASHIZUME5 and Tsuneo WATANABE2
Affiliation:
1. Institute for Living Body Measurements, International Research Institute (Chiba, Japan) 2. Center for the Environmental Study of Life and Mind, Faculty of Science, Toho University (Funabashi, Japan) 3. Iritech Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) 4. Centre for Informatics and Sciences, Nippon Medical School (Tokyo, Japan) 5. Research Institute, Morinaga & Co., Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan)
Conference/Journal: J. Intl. Soc. Life Info. Sci.
Date published: March 2008
Other:
Volume ID: 26 , Issue ID: 1 , Pages: 138-145 , Word Count: 61
The change of brain blood flow was measured by functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in subjects during practice of taichi-quan. Subjects were a veteran practitioner (male, 66 years old) and a beginner (male, 59 years old), and they were measured twice. The increase of blood flow was seen in the pre-frontal area in both subjects. Moreover, their patterns of electrodermal activity were similar.
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