A5018043915- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Noise Effects and Management
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
- Chemical Safety and Risk Management
- Effects of Vibration on Health
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Biofield Effects and Biophysics
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
- Contact Dermatitis and Allergies
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Trace Elements in Health
- S100 Proteins and Annexins
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Occupational exposure and asthma
- Color perception and design
Changhua Christian Hospital
2010-2018
China Medical University Hospital
2017
China Medical University
2017
Kaohsiung Medical University
2000-2005
Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital
2001-2005
Tao Yuan General Hospital
1996-2001
Brigham and Women's Hospital
2000
Harvard University
2000
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
2000
National Taiwan University Hospital
2000
Qigong is a gentle exercise that promotes health and well-being. This study evaluated the acute physiological psychological effects of one session qigong in older practitioners. A total 45 participants (mean age, 65.14 years) were recruited. Meridian electrical conductance, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), heart rate variability (HRV), Short Form 36 (SF-36) compared before after exercise. The results revealed conductance all meridians, except spleen bladder increased significantly (p <...
OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of long term occupational exposure to lead on function peripheral nervous system as reflected by vibration perception threshold (VPT), measured with a portable vibrameter. METHODS 217 Workers in battery factory were required have an annual blood measurement during each 5 years preceding this study. All invited take VPT test. A total 206 workers studied. The associations analysed between VPTs and current concentration, mean concentration over past years,...
Tc-99m TRODAT is an agent for dopamine transporters and measuring innervation of the striatum. An association between Parkinson disease body burden mercury level has been reported in scientific published data. The purpose this study was to investigate effect exposure on striatum measured by single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).Study subjects included 17 workers who worked a lamp factory at risk vapor 15 age-matched healthy controls. All received SPECT, brain scan, neurologic...
Abstract A total of 368 workers from six paint-manufacturing factories participated in this study. The were classified according to type exposure: direct, intermittent, and no exposure. workers' liver-function tests influenced greatly by gender, hepatitis B, alcohol consumption, body mass index. Both the serum concentration odds abnormality bile acids elevated among directly exposed group. authors concluded that analysis covariance should take into account occupational nonoccupational...
The purpose of the study was to evaluate relationship between number packs smoked per day and specific uptake ratio (SUR) in striatum on Tc-99m TRODAT, frequency hand tremor.It a prospective, cross-sectional study. In all, 23 healthy nonsmokers 37 current smokers were recruited All subjects underwent TRODAT SPECT, brain CT scan, thyroid function test, tremor measurement system, neurologic examinations.There significant differences SUR rest state arm extended among (grade I), with less than 1...
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects various levels alcohol consumption on human response auditory and visual stimuli in terms reaction time, movement total error rate. Placebo level three low-level doses were randomly assigned 20 male university student volunteers. 30 min. after consuming or placebo, participants responded either stimuli. Total time increased significantly at mid-low dose (0.3 g/kg). For less than .5 g/kg, change was confined i.e., processing between onset...
A 28-year-old man at high risk of mercury vapor exposure, having worked in a lamp factory for 5 years, was recruited to the hospital neurologic evaluation. This experimental study obtained both approval Institutional Review Board and worker's informed consent. The worker had complained memory impairment, palpitations, depression after working factory. His biologic urine level 9.18 μg/g creatinine. There no abnormality on brain-CT scan. However, imaging with Tc-99m TRODAT, an agent dopamine...