{"title":"A curious relationship between feeling level and cognitive function in female brain during pregnancy and childbearing","authors":"H. Kotani, Maka Matsuno, H. Nakagawa","doi":"10.1109/SeGAH.2016.7586231","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlations between feeling levels and cognitive functions in a women's brain during a time of pregnancy and childbearing. One hundred and fourteen women ranging in age from 23-43 years (mean ± SD: 31.8 ± 4.3) took part in our experiment. Seventy-nine women were pregnant (mean age ± SD: 32.1 ± 4.9) and 35 were not pregnant (mean age ± SD: 31.1 ± 4.4). All the pregnant women were expecting their first child. Concerning the pregnant group, 33 women (mean age ± SD: 32.0 ± 4.0) continued with our experiment after their childbearing was concluded. On four questionnaire categories established by Hanazawa's protocol, we assessed each subject's feeling level for a child, a husband, a mood and their health. At the same time, we instructed them to carry out five kinds of tests: simple reaction, SR; choice reaction, CR; working memory, WM; one card learning, OC; and divided attention, DA using card games through a cognitive function test called “CogHealth”. The accuracies relating to the CR task in the postnatal women were significantly lower (t(18)=2.42, P <; 0.05), depending on the questionnaire scores about positive feelings for their husband. In the postnatal group, there was also an inverse correlation between their positive feelings for their child and a quick response to OC leaning (r= -0.46, P <; 0.05). Furthermore, the pregnant women who perceived that the women themselves might be in an unhealthy state were significantly higher in accuracy for the DA task among the five CogHealth tasks than pregnant women who believed their health was sound (t(77)=2.00, P <; 0.05). There were also no significant differences between subjects who considered themselves healthy and those who considered themselves unhealthy in each of the other two groups. Our findings confirm that pregnant and postnatal women's feeling levels are closely connected with their cognitive functions.","PeriodicalId":138418,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SeGAH.2016.7586231","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlations between feeling levels and cognitive functions in a women's brain during a time of pregnancy and childbearing. One hundred and fourteen women ranging in age from 23-43 years (mean ± SD: 31.8 ± 4.3) took part in our experiment. Seventy-nine women were pregnant (mean age ± SD: 32.1 ± 4.9) and 35 were not pregnant (mean age ± SD: 31.1 ± 4.4). All the pregnant women were expecting their first child. Concerning the pregnant group, 33 women (mean age ± SD: 32.0 ± 4.0) continued with our experiment after their childbearing was concluded. On four questionnaire categories established by Hanazawa's protocol, we assessed each subject's feeling level for a child, a husband, a mood and their health. At the same time, we instructed them to carry out five kinds of tests: simple reaction, SR; choice reaction, CR; working memory, WM; one card learning, OC; and divided attention, DA using card games through a cognitive function test called “CogHealth”. The accuracies relating to the CR task in the postnatal women were significantly lower (t(18)=2.42, P <; 0.05), depending on the questionnaire scores about positive feelings for their husband. In the postnatal group, there was also an inverse correlation between their positive feelings for their child and a quick response to OC leaning (r= -0.46, P <; 0.05). Furthermore, the pregnant women who perceived that the women themselves might be in an unhealthy state were significantly higher in accuracy for the DA task among the five CogHealth tasks than pregnant women who believed their health was sound (t(77)=2.00, P <; 0.05). There were also no significant differences between subjects who considered themselves healthy and those who considered themselves unhealthy in each of the other two groups. Our findings confirm that pregnant and postnatal women's feeling levels are closely connected with their cognitive functions.
这项研究的目的是调查怀孕和生育期间女性大脑的感觉水平和认知功能之间的关系。114名女性参加了我们的实验,年龄在23-43岁之间(mean±SD: 31.8±4.3)。79名妇女怀孕(平均年龄±SD: 32.1±4.9),35名妇女未怀孕(平均年龄±SD: 31.1±4.4)。所有的孕妇都在期待她们的第一个孩子。妊娠组33名妇女(平均年龄±SD: 32.0±4.0)在结束生育后继续我们的实验。在根据Hanazawa的方案建立的四个问卷类别中,我们评估了每个受试者对孩子、丈夫、情绪和健康的感觉水平。同时,我们指导他们进行五种测试:简单反应,SR;选择反应,CR;工作记忆;一卡学习,OC;以及分散注意力,通过一项名为“认知健康”的认知功能测试,使用纸牌游戏的DA。产后妇女在CR任务上的准确性显著降低(t(18)=2.42, P <;0.05),这取决于她们对丈夫的积极感受的问卷得分。在产后组中,他们对孩子的积极感受与对OC学习的快速反应之间也存在负相关(r= -0.46, P <;0.05)。此外,在五个CogHealth任务中,认为自己可能处于不健康状态的孕妇在DA任务中的准确性显著高于认为自己健康良好的孕妇(t(77)=2.00, P <;0.05)。在其他两组中,认为自己健康的受试者和认为自己不健康的受试者之间也没有显著差异。我们的研究结果证实,孕妇和产后妇女的感觉水平与她们的认知功能密切相关。