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I'm Miyeon Jung, associate professor here at IU School of Nursing Indianapolis campus. My research is to develop and test interventions to improve cognitive function for people with serious heart conditions, such as heart failure. You know, heart actually pump the blood to all the organs in our body, right? To meet the body's needs. And the brain actually requires the most oxygen out of our organs. So when the pump the heart cannot actually pump enough blood, that means the brain actually is not getting enough oxygen. So the function of our brain actually decreases. So that's why we actually see many of the patients with heart failure. They actually have more likely to develop dementia and also some more difficulties even before developing dementia. You know, cognitive function predicts one-year mortality. Patients with heart failure, you know, within five years, 50% die. So that's why I thought this is really what we need to do, but do we have any medications to improve their cognitive function especially in high failure population? No, so that's why I'm doing this non-pharmacological interventions to help them to maintain their function and prevent their dementia. When people interact with more nature, they can actually reduce their brain fatigue, so I kind of wanted to bring the nature to the home. That's going to be easy, and that's going to be less expensive rather than relocating the patients to near the nature park, right? So I created the nature scenes, like superical image, and then put it into the virtual reality headset so they can actually sit on their couch and just had the headset, enjoy all the beautiful nature from across the United States and all over the world. What I really like about the IU School of Nursing is about the culture. People are really open-minded and open for collaboration, open to consult, or open for working together. So that's why I think people would love here coming for study or teach or something else, I think. [Music]