Recently, Professor Zhu Zude from School of Linguistic Sciences and Arts cooperated with research fellows from Xuanwu Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine and Wispirit Tech Co., Ltd. and made important progress in cognitive intervention based on neural network. Related achievement, entitled “the effects of 7-week cognitive training in patients with vascular cognitive impairment, nodementia (the Cog-VACCINE study): A randomized controlled trial” was published on Alzheimer’s & Dementia (IF 12.764), the journal of the Alzheimer's Association.
Professor Zhu is the co-first author of this paper. This research found that the 7-week-long cognitive training efficiently improved patients’ linguistic and cognitive function, which was supported by the improved brain plasticity. It is evaluated as the first research that improves vascular cognitive impairment with cognitive training by a review paper published on Nature Reviews Disease Primers in 2018 (DOI:10.1038/nrdp.2018.3). Reader said that it provided a new direction for non-pharmacological intervention.
It is reported that there is a high incidence of cognitive disorder, dementia and other cognitive impairment caused by stroke. However, by far, no effective medicine could be used to improve this situation. As a non-pharmacological treatment, cognitive intervention has aroused more and more attention among academic circle and the whole society for its role in the treatment of dementia prevention and cognitive impairment.
Professor Zhu has been engaged in innovative work among the field of linguistics cognition. He proposed multimodal cognitive intervention based on neural network discovered through basic research of cross-cognition field. His computerization cognitive training has won the third prize of Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award in 2017. He composed China’s first Chinese Expert Consensus on Cognitive Training as co-author at the invitation of Chinese Medical Doctor Assocaition.
