About
Dept.Functional Brain Imaging
| Professor(Additional) | Ryuta KAWASHIMA |
| Associate Professor | Motoaki SUGIURA |
| Senior Assistant Professor (Additional) | Atsushi SEKIGUCHI |
| Assistant Professor | Satoru YOKOYAMA |
| Assistant Professor | Akitake KANNO |
| Assistant Professor | Akira SUMIYOSHI |
| Guest Instructor | Naoki MIURA |
| Guest Instructor | Shinichiro KAHOH |
| Guest Instructor | Seishu NAKAGAWA |
Researchers in our department have a variety of backgrounds including medicine, science, life science, engineering, pharmacy, linguistics, pedagogy, and the arts, and work energetically on a wide range of studies of brain science, from the basic brain research in small animals (e.g., rats and mice), to functional brain imaging research, which creates images of the working of the mind, to social technology study, which applies the findings of these studies to educational and welfare fields.
In basic brain research in small animals, we try to combine the invasive techniques such as post-mortem histology, genetic manipulations, and pharmacological interventions, in order to clarify the underlying biological mechanisms behind the human neuroimaging findings.
In functional brain imaging research, our interest is the "human mind." We elucidate the neural underpinnings of cognitive functions, such as perception, memory, motor, linguistic, and emotional processes, and reveal the mechanism of the mind that survives the complicated physical and social environment around us.
In social technology research, we will open a new possible approach to education and social welfare from the viewpoint of brain science. We develop welfare systems for the improvement and maintenance of brain function in the elderly and education systems to best foster the healthy development of brain function in children.
- Fig.1 Simultaneous recording of EEG and fMRI in small animal (Sumiyoshi et al., 2011)
- Fig.2 Brain areas involved in the communication as revealed using functional MRI
Publication
- Sekiguchi A, Sugiura M, Taki Y, Kotozaki Y, Nouchi R, Takeuchi H, Araki T, Hanawa S, Nakagawa S, Miyauchi CM, Sakuma A, Kawashima R. Brain structural changes as vulnerability factors and acquired signs of post-earthquake stress. Molecular Psychiatry, in press
- Shigemune Y, Tsukiura T, Kambara T, Kawashima R. Remembering with gains and losses: Effects of monetary reward and punishment on successful encoding activation of source memories. Cerebral Cortex, in press
- Akimoto Y, Kanno A, Kambara T, Nozawa T, Sugiura M, Okumura E, Kawashima R. Spatiotemporal dynamics of high-gamma activities during a 3-stimulus visual oddball task. PLoS ONE, 8(3): e59969, 2013
- Nakagawa S, Sugiura M, Akitsuki Y, S.M.Hosseini, Kotozaki Y, Miyauchi CM, Yomogida Y, Yokoyama R, Takeuchi H, Kawashima R. Compensatory Effort Parallels Midbrain Deactivation during Mental Fatigue: An fMRI Study. PLoS ONE, 8(2): e56606, 2013.
- Sumiyoshi A, Suzuki H, Ogawa T, Riera JJ, Shimokawa H, Kawashima R. Coupling between gamma oscillation and fMRI signal in the rat somatosensory cortex: its dependence on systemic physiological parameters. NeuroImage, 60: 738-746, 2012.
- Yokoyama S, Maki H, Hashimoto Y, Toma M, Kawashima R. Mechanism of Case Processing in the Brain: an fMRI Study. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40474. doi:10.1371, 2012.
- Riera JJ, Ogawa T, Goto T, Sumiyoshi A, Nonaka H, Evans A, Miyakawa H, Kawashima R. Pitfalls in the dipolar model for the neocortical EEG sources. J Neurophysiology, 108: 956-975, 2012.
- Sugiura M, Sassa Y, Jeong H, Wakusawa K, Horie K, Sato S, Kawashima R. Self-face recognition in social context. Human Brain Mapping, 33: 1364-1374, 2012.
- Sumiyoshi A, Suzuki H, Shimokawa H, Kawashima R. Neurovascular uncoupling under mild hypoxic hypoxia: an EEG–fMRI study in rats. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 32: 1853-1858, 2012.
- Funayama R, Sugiura M, Sassa Y, Jeong H, Wakusawa K, Horie K, Sato S, Kawashima R. Neural bases of human mate choice: multiple value-dimensions, sex difference, and self-assessment system. Social Neuroscience, 7: 59-73, 2012.