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International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience | ISSN: 1522-4821 | Volume 20
November 26-27, 2018 | Los Angeles, USA
Psychiatry, Mental Health Nursing and Healthcare
World Summit on
Applied Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health
International Conference on
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Cognitive improvement by food substitutes using PhytoMeal, Pitfalls for Neuropsycholgical testing
Han Sung Ju
and
Manho Kim
Seoul National University, South Korea
I
ncreasing aging population accelerate the prevalence of patients with dementia. They were initially complaining or unaware
their cognitive decling, thus proper neuropsyological evaluations are sometimes missed. Recently, in addition to the
developing medicine that targeting the amyloid plaque in case of Alzheimer’s disease, there are several important attention for
the exploring the functional food that improve or at least delayed the progression of cognitive decline. Among the candidate for
the
Salicornia Europaea
, a plant in the ocean,-the plant cannot grow in the salted environment-had been selected and explored
the possibilities for its anti-choline esterate inhibitory effect, that lead to the improve the neuropsycholgical performance. In
vitro and in vivo test had been shown effective and clinical trial with several series of psychological tests have be on going.
To be able to use in human, efficacy and safety of this
Salicornia Europaea
should be of importance in order to review from
KFDA (Food and Drug administration). Currently, improvement of K-MMSE and ADAS-cog are main primary endpoints in
Korea. However, determining process selecting proper psychological test were not organized. Therefore, there can be possible
limitation that mask the real efficacy of functional food approvement. If the result was not significant, different psychological
tests should be remained for further evaluation of endpoint. International standard for applying psychological evaluation would
be of benefit. More efficient detailed or reliable evaluation of psychological analysis that can be applied to the development of
cognitive-enhancing medicinal food.
Biography
Dr. Han SJ has her expertise in evaluation and passion in improving the health and wellbeing. Her main area of research field is horticulture therapy, expecially
dementic patients. Psychological evaluation tool and application of this method is of importance and, currently she is joing the clinical research developing
functional food, shown above abstract. The necessary psycological evaluation would be of importance for the future outcome. Her visiting this congress is to explore
the international activity of psychological evaluation, creates new pathways for improving healthcare. Both in hospital and education institutions, she would like to
broaden the knowledge of medical, expecially neuropsycholical field. Her background or thesis is positive psychological analysis combined with horticulture therapy,
which is the first attempt in the world.
smkim010203@gmail.comHan Sung Ju et al., Int J Emerg Ment Health, Volume 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C5-024