OriGAMI, Art, AND SENIOR CITIZENS
2023:
Dr. Cerel-Suhl teaching her memory enhancing origami curriculum to other instructors at Origami USA 2023 meeting (pictured top).
2017:
A work done by research students - healthy senior citizen subjects in a project to improve brain health in senior adults through origami (pictured middle).
2016:
Community: A collaborative work to welcome senior citizens to a healthy aging fair sponsored by The Sanders Brown Center at University of Kentucky, providing seniors with the opportunity to try origami (pictured bottom).
At the University of Kentucky’s Sanders Brown Center on Aging, Dr Sylvia Cerel-Suhl taught an 8 week origami curriculum to cognitively normal senior citizens as part of a multipart comparison research study. The purpose was to test methods for improving memory and preventing or delaying Dementia. Some results are reported in articles and abstracts below.
2016-2023
Dr. Cerel- Suhl has continued to use origami and interactive art methods with Seniors in: Assisted Living, Dementia Care, and Public Library settings to benefit participants’ mood, memory and cognition (Brain Function.)
Journal Articles:
Jiang Y, Jessee W, Hoyng S, Borhani S, Liu Z, Zhao X, Price LK, High W, Suhl J, Cerel-Suhl, S..
Sharpening Working Memory With Real-Time Electrophysiological Brain Signals: Which Neurofeedback Paradigms Work?. Front Aging Neurosci. 2022;14:780817. doi: 0.3389/fnagi.2022.780817. eCollection 2022. Review. PubMed PMID: 35418848; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8995767.
Abstracts:
For questions:
Sylvia Cerel-Suhl M.D.