WS01 Tuning body, mind, and spirit based on Zen and mindfulness
Ven. Seogwang, Institute of Korean Meditation and Psychotherapy, Korea
This session will introduce mind & body tuning skills for increasing mental and physical health. The tuning skills were developed based on the integration of a traditional Korean Zen psychotherapy and transpersonal psychotherapeutic methods. Participants will learn and experience various mindful techniques and tuning skills of sensations, emotions, thoughts, and memories including Korean cultural stuffs and wisdom.
WS02 Internet interventions for caregivers: The future of dementia care?
Anne Margriet Pot, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Program on Aging, The Netherlands
Mary S. Mittelman, Comprehensive Center on Brain Aging and Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical Center, United States
Odile Smeets, Trimbos-instituut, The Netherlands
Introduction: In the past decade, web-based technologies have been developing rapidly, offering many opportunities to mental health promotion, prevention and treatment. People living with a disability or chronic disease are more frequent Internet users, and more likely to state that they made health decisions based on information found on the web. The general population is increasingly also seeking direct help through web-based interventions and therapy services, not only for themselves, but also for their children and parents. The revolution of the information technology era has created an impact on the upcoming generation but also in the older generations, who may be able to benefit from this development. Important questions are: How this new evolution can help them? How can we create e-Mental Health services suitable for them? What kind of competences are necessary to develop effective online or digital programs for older people in general, and family caregivers of people with dementia in particular? Caregivers of people with dementia are a target group for whom e-Mental Health interventions seem to have important advantages. Because of the worldwide increase in the number of people with dementia - nearly doubling every 20 years to an estimated 115.4 million in 2050, one advantage is that they can potentially reach many of these caregivers, including those in an early stage of the caregiving process or in rural areas. Furthermore, these interventions are available at any time and accessible from home. They can be easily tailored to caregivers’ needs and wishes and may be more cost-effective than in-person interventions. And last, but not least, e-Mental Health interventions may decrease the barrier to accepting help, because people can participate without revealing their identity. In this pre-conference workshop we share our experience in this field with participants who want to be informed on the latest developments, but also those who are considering whether to develop of an Internet intervention themselves.
Learning objectives
• An overview of the latest developments in e-Mental Health interventions for older adults in general, and family caregivers of people with dementia in particular.
• Awareness of the essential considerations in developing Internet interventions.
• How to decide on the ingredients and content for the intervention.
• How to assure cultural competence of the intervention.
• Insight into challenges related to the development or cultural adaptation, research and implementation of Internet interventions
• Knowledge on the do's and don'ts with regard to the development of an Internet intervention
Program
• Definition, scope and added value of e-Mental Health in general and Internet interventions for older people, caregivers and professionals in particular
• Examples and best practices of Internet programs and interventions for the 50+ age group
• Ingredients to create Internet programs, for caregivers of people with dementia in particular
• Challenges for development, research and implementation: adherence, usability, integration with primary care, scalability, sustainability, quality control, collaborative vision.
• A closer look at two interventions for caregivers of people with dementia: NYU Caregiver Intervention developed by Mittelman et al., and currently being adapted for the Internet, and Mastery over Dementia, an Internet intervention developed by Pot et al.
• Innovation and future directions
WS03 Neuroanatomy of white matter tract
WS03-01 White matter tracts in sectional anatomy and tractography
Je-Geun Chi, Department of Pathology, Seoul National University, Korea
WS03-02 White matter tracts through dissection
Chan-Young Choi, Department of Neurosurgery, Inje University, Korea
WS03-03 Thalamic and limbic fiber system through 7.0 Tesla MR tractography
Zang-Hee Cho, Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon University, Korea
This workshop is to provide recent advances on brain white matter anatomy. The connectomics becomes gradually important for the understanding of normal and abnormal neurological functions. Thanks to the advance of high field MRI technology, diffusion tensor image or tractography of the white matter of human brain in vivo made it possible to visualize the fine fiber tracts of the brain, such as thalamo-limbic fiber system as well as the well-known fasciculus. Its application in deep brain stimulation and also stereotactic surgery is expected. Classic white matter tracts of the brain will be shown through dissection of the cadaver brains and the results will be correlated with in vivo tractography. In summary participants would be benefited for the detailed understanding of the white matter in general, but particularly of limbic system and Papez circuit through this workshop.
WS04 Recent developments in diffusion tensor imaging
Jong-Min Lee, Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea
New imaging techniques for diffusion tensor imaging
Dosik Hwang, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea
Recent advances in registration methodology of diffusion tensor imaging
Hyunjin Park, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Graph theory-based structural brain network analysis
Joon-Kyung Seong, Deptartment of Biomedical Engineering, Korea University, Korea
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been widely studied in the psychiatry area. DTI is useful not only for studying white matter but also network analysis. The attendants will learn recent developments in diffusion tensor imaging during this half-day workshop. Especially, this workshop covers new imaging techniques, image registration and network analysis in diffusion tensor imaging.
