| History and Outline of BFL: |
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| Prof. Toshimitsu Musha |
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BFL was established in 1992 by Prof. Toshimitsu Musha right after he retired from Tokyo Institute of Technology, aiming at developing
new EEG analysis technologies for non-invasively estimating signal processing
in the brain. The first target was prevention of the sudden death coming
from the mental overwork of workaholic people. Eventually he has reached
a new technique of reading a dynamic change of our mind. This technique
expresses the emotional state as an emotion vector in the 4-D rectangular
coordinate system spanned by four orthogonal sates: stress, joy, depression, and relaxation. This technique has been named ESAM for Emotion Spectrum Analysis Method.
This is now widely used in industries for measuring the degree of satisfaction
of users of their new products and for objective evaluation of our living
environments.
As the next step, he aimed at developing an inexpensive, non-invasive (without
exposure to X-ray, g-ray radiation), sensitive, reliable, and easy-to-handle tool for early
detection of dementia. Currently the early detection is the only way to
delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD) which progresses very slowly.
We are successful in its development. This technique has been named DIMENSION
for Diagnosis Method of Neuronal Dysfunction, which is also applicable
to sensitive monitoring the efficacy of treatment (medication, rehabilitation,
etc.) for demented patients. The city of Kawasaki (population of 1.3 millions)
is adopting DIMENSION for screening out demented people in its very early
stage or MCI (mild cognitive impairment) among the citizens. |
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