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Population-wide preventative treatment of aging-associated cognitive impairment via adjustment of movie and TV shows frame and refresh rates

Ted Weita Lai, BSc, PhD; Hilary Chen, BPH; Ya Lan Yang, BSc; Meng-Chih Wu, MSc; Eric Yuhsiang Wang Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica of Taiwan Chronic repeated visualization of a LED light that flickers at a frequency of ~40Hz (known as GENUS: gamma entrainment using sensory stimulus) is recently found to…

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Novel top-to-toe screening system for early detecting sarcopenia

Jin-Chern Chiou; Liang-Kung Chen, MD, PhD; Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica of Taiwan Sarcopenia has identified as a skeletal muscle disease in the international classification diseases (ICD-10). But its etiology and underlying mechanisms and effective treatment remain unavailable. The Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA), currently used for diagnosis, can’t apply for daily…

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A multidomain biometric sensing platform that detects asymptomatic prodromal phase of Parkinson’s disease

Chin-Hsien Lin, MD, PhD; Li-Chen Fu, PhD; Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, PhD Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica of Taiwan Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders with an estimated number will be nearly 9 million in the year 2030.The symptoms of PD include resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity and…

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Connected speech analysis in elderly population

Yi-Chien Liu, MD, PhD; Chia-Ying Lee, PhD; Chi-Ting Chang, PhD; Chia-Ju Chou, PhD Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica of Taiwan One of the most effective strategy in preventing pathological aging is very early diagnosis. In this project, we are more interested in differences related to “speech production”. Speech samples of both…

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Improving elderly masticatory function and nutrition by chewing gum, image recognition, and personal health informatics

Ta-Chien Chan, PhD; Ping-Chen Chung, DDS, MS; Chung-Liang Lai, MD, MPH. PHD, Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica of Taiwan
Oral health care is an important part of total patient care. Image recognition of gum mixing while patients chew bicolor gum establishes a novel method to test chewing efficiency, and integrates personal…

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Artificial Intelligence Assisted Early Diagnosis Mechanism for Alzheimer’s Disease

Chia-Lung Liu, Ph.D., Feng-Jie Tsai, MS, Mu-Liang Wang, BS, and Ting-Wu Ho, PhD | Industrial Technology Research Institute – Information and Communications Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 As the global population continues to age, the number of people suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) currently…

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Dementia-MDIC Patch for Healthy People

Chen-Hsun Weng, Ph.D. | National Cheng Kung University, Medical Device Innovation Center (MDIC), Tainan, Taiwan; Yu-Sheng Lin, Ph.D. | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology; and Sing Yung Bu, MS (MDIC), Jamie Liao, BS (MDIC), and Hans Chiang, MS (MDIC)
Competition Sponsor: Academia…

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Development of Body Exoskeleton

Jung-Tang Huang, PhD, Po-Hsiang Chuang, MS (student), En-Yu Lin, MS (student), Chih-Ming Chuang, MS (student), Pei-Ying Chang (undergraduate), Pei-En Wu (undergraduate), Chien-Hsun Wang (undergraduate), Ping-Lun Tsai (undergraduate) | National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 This project will develop a High-load powered body…

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Mechanism of Gut Microbiota-Regulated Cardiac Repair After Infarction in Aged Mice

Patrick C.H. Hsieh, MD, PhD, Byron Chen, PhD, and Tom Huang, MS | Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 Myocardial infarction (MI) remains the leading cause of mortality across all industrialized nations and the mortality rate of patients suffering from acute…

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Targeting Dietary Restriction-Associated Gut Microbiota to Prevent and Treat Age-Related Cognitive Decline

Pei-Yu Wang, PhD | Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Wei-Sheng Lin, MD | Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 Cognitive decline is a critical health and social issue…

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