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Kawashima Laboratory
Kawashima Laboratory consists of three departments: 1) Advanced Brain Science, 2) Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and 3) Ubiquitous Sensing. If you are interested in any of our research activities listed below and would like to join our team, please contact us.
Research Topics of Laboratory Professors
Ryuta KAWASHIMA Professor
R&D for systems to improve cognitive and physical functions of healthy elderly.
R&D for cognitive intervention systems for people with dementia.
Researches on influences of everyday life customs on cognitive development of children.
Hikaru TAKEUCHI Associate Professor
Researches on neural mechanisms behind the individual differences of various cognitive measures using MRI/fMRI.
Researches on neural mechanisms behind the effects of various cognitive training using MRI/fMRI.
Researches on effects of polymorphisms on neural basis using MRI/fMRI.
Researches on effects of daily habits and environmental factors on neural systems using MRI/fMRI.
Rui NOUCHI Associate Professor
Research about the effects of aging and emotion on the episodic memory using fMRI and psychological methods (experiment, questionnaire and interview).
Research about cognitive processes and neural bases about information related to disasters using fMRI and psychological methods (experiment, questionnaire and interview).
Research and development about cognitive functions using fMRI and psychological methods.
Research about cognitive and physical training for the elderly on cognitive functions and mental health using RCT, fMRI and psychological methods (experimental, questionnaire and interview).
Developments of easy assessment tools of cognitive functions and mental health.
Teruo HASHIMOTO Assistant Professor
Researches on mechanisms behind perception, cognition, and emotion using experimental psychology and MRI/fMRI.
Researches on neural mechanisms behind cognitive developments and those disorders using experimental psychology and MRI/fMRI.
Researches on effects of genetic factors on psychological and physiological developments using experimental psychology and MRI/fMRI.
Rie RYOKE Assistant Professor
The effects of environmental enrichment on brain volumes detected by MRI and, learning and memory.
To investigate the neural mechanisms of post-traumatic stress disorder using PTSD animal model.
Shigeyuki IKEDA Assistant Professor
Inter-personal brain coherence during cooperative interaction.
Relationship between resting state brain activity and inter-personal communication.
Yutaka MATSUZAKI Assistant Professor
3T-MRI in conjunction with cognitive development research.
Kazumasu SASAKI Assistant Professor
Our Brain Imaging Equipment
Human (3T) MRI
For investigating the mechanism of the mind in human brain.
For decoding the mind.
For exploring new ways towards human happiness through the understanding of brain-mind relationship.
For evaluating the effects of lifestyle or cognitive training on brain structure and function.
For revealing correlations among lifestyle, genetic factors, cognitions, brain structure and function.
For detetcting the structural and functional differences between healthy and pathological brains.
Animal (7T) MRI
For combining invasive histology, genetic manipulation, and pharmacological intervention.
For clarifying the background mechanism behind the human neuroimaging modality.
For evaluating the novel pre-clinical drugs using animal disease models.
NIRS
For measuring the activity of prefrontal cortex in daily life circumstance.
For decoding the human mind.
For measuring the interactions of brain functions from a group of peoples.