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Cognitive Function Science Lab
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A lab that explores ways, such as exercise, to prevent dementia and frailty in older adults.
AboutAbout the lab
Testing ways to prevent dementia and frailty
The Cognitive Function Science Lab scientifically tests whether non-drug approaches such as exercise, nutrition, and intellectual activities are effective in preventing dementia and physical frailty.
Based on these findings, the lab develops programs for preventing the need for long-term care.
Its central tasks are to find exercises and activities that prevent progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia, and to carry out trials that demonstrate their effects.
The lab's website is the page of the Department of Preventive Gerontology at the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (NCGG) in Obu, Aichi Prefecture.
Key terms
- Mild cognitive impairment
- A condition that comes just before dementia. The lab studies exercises and activities that prevent progression from this stage to dementia
- Non-drug therapy
- Approaches that do not use medication. In this lab, they include exercise, nutrition, and intellectual activities
- Sarcopenia
- The loss of muscle that occurs with aging. The lab studies simple assessment methods and prevention methods for it
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to test effective ways of supporting independence in older adults and to create programs that can be used in health and welfare services such as long-term care prevention programs. To this end, it studies exercises and activities that can help prevent dementia and physical frailty.
*Illustrative imagePreventing dementia in people with mild cognitive impairment
The lab develops programs to prevent progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia and tests their effects. It also takes on the challenge of building communities where dementia is less likely to develop.
*Illustrative imageAssessing and preventing muscle loss and frailty
The lab studies simple assessment methods and prevention methods for sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle, and for frailty.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Department of Preventive Gerontology consist of the department head, deputy head, chief researchers, researchers, project chief researchers, project researchers, research assistants, and research students.
- Affiliated ProfessorHiroyuki Shimada
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Elderly women walking past a roasted chestnuts vendor, Praça de Londres, Lisbon, Portugal julesvernex2” Jules Verne Times Two / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Preventing dementia in people with mild cognitive impairment: “Skipping rope agesuit altersanzug alterssimulationsanzug ageexplorer gundolf meyer-hentschel” Gundolf Meyer-Hentschel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Assessing and preventing muscle loss and frailty: “1025 Atrophy” OpenStax / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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