Degree Programs in Comprehensive Human Sciences<Master's Program in Neuroscience>
Field of Research

Neuroscience

Faculty

Detailed Description of Research Field

ABE Takashi

・Neurobehavioral consequences of sleep loss
・Mitigating performance deficits from sleep loss
・Understanding the psychological functions of sleep
・Developing novel methods for measuring sleep and alertness

AYABE Saho

・Human olfactory perception/cognition and odor hedonics
・Haptic space perception/cognition and perceptual learning
・Perception/cognition of facial expressions

ARAI Tetsuaki

・Early diagnosis of demenita using biomarkers
・Clinical study of dementia prevention
・Clinicopathological, biochemical and neuroimaging study ofdementia
・Clinical study of presenile dementia

OISHI Yo

・Short-sleeper mice to elucidate sleep function and mechanisms
・Generation of sleepwalking-like state to elucidate the neuralmechanisms

OTA Miho

・Relationship between the aphasia and the regional brain function indementia revealed by magnetic resonance imaging
・Psychiatric disease-related brain change revealed by magnetic
resonance imaging

OKAZAKI Shinji・Psychophysiological study of attention in children with intellectualand developmental disabilities
・Developmental neuropsychological study of assessment andintervention for the person with developmental disabilities

KUNIMATSU Jun･The effect of respiration on cognitive function･The neural mechnisms for social behavior in primates･Role of the cerebellum in higher motor control

KOGANEZAWA
Tadachika・Study on the neural regulation of the cardiovascular system
・Study on the neural regulation of the respiratory system
・Study on the neural regulation based cardiovascular and respiratory
diseases

SAKAGUCHI Masanori

・Functional significance of sleep in memory
・Elucidation and application of neuronal plasticity
・Developing a new therapy for PTSD (clinical study)

SAKURAI Katsuyasu

・Understanding neural mechanisms underlying desire sleep
・Understanding neural mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders－1－

SAKURAI Takeshi

・Elucidation of physiological roles of novel neuropeptides
・Deciphering the neuronal mechanisms that regulate
sleep/wakefulness states
・Revealing neuronal pathways that regulate social behavior andsocial distance・Analyzing the neuronal mechanisms that control regulated
hypometabolism

SASAKI Tetsuya

・Functional cortical area formation and development
・Primate-specific neural circuit formation and the involvement inpathophysiology of psychiatric disorders

SAMBAI Ami

・Processing of reading, writing and language and its development
・Study of cognitive mechanisms of developmental dyslexia anddevelopmental language disorders
・Clinical study of developmental dyslexia and developmental
language disorders

TAKAHASHI Aki

・Neuroscience, behavior genetics, and neuroimmunologicalapproaches to study the biological mechanism of animal behavior
including emotion and social behaviors (especially aggressivebehavior) using animal models

TAKEI Yosuke

・Analysis of molecular pathology of schizophrenia and autism
spectrum disorder・Analysis of mechanism of intracellular transport in neurons

NAKATA Mariko

・Neuroendocrine basis of social and emotional behavior
・Establishment and investigation of neural basis of animal model forgroup behavior in mice・Neural basis of side effects induced by psychiatric medication

PASQUALOTTO Achille・Multisensory/visual/auditory/haptic cognition in humans
・Memory modulation via non-invasive brain stimulation in humans
・Human spatial cognition

HIRANO Arisa

・Molecular biology and neuroscience on oscillatory mechanism ofthe circadian clock in mice・Neural network involved in regulation of circadian rhythms(sleep/wake, endocrine, body temperature) in mice・Molecular mechanism of non-visual photo-reception in mouse
retinaHONJOH Sakiko

・Synaptic plasticity and sleep
・Neural circuits underlying NREM sleep specific brain activity

YAMADA Kazuo

・Behavioral neuroscience on neural mechanisms of learning,memory, and forgetting using rodents
・Behavioral neuroscience on rodents’ models of post-traumatic stressdisorder (PTSD) and drug dependence

YAMADA Hiroshi

・Neural mechanisms for economic decision makings
・How neural circuitry employees computations
・How the motivation and willingness to act are emerged in the brain

YAMANAKA Katsuo

・Psychosocial approaches for dementia care・Psychological assessments for dementia care・Social attitudes to persons living with dementia－2－

LAZARUS Michael・Understanding the link between sleepiness and motivation by
exploring mesolimbic glia-neuron interactions
・Sleep circuits as potential therapeutic targets for insomnia
・Adenosine A2A receptor function in schizophrenia
・Neuro-immune communication in sleep disorders: mechanisms,diagnostic and therapeutic relevance[Cooperative Graduate School]
Field of Research
Neuroscience

Faculty

Detailed Description of Research Field

IWAKI Sunao(AIST)・Quantitative evaluation of subjective experience using non-invasive
neuroimaging techniques・Development of multimodal neuroimaging to visualize and modelneural networks in the human brain

KATAHIRA Kentaro

・Computational modeling of behavioral data
・Experimental and computational research on human behavior
selection
・Development of statistical methods for analyzing individual
differences(Cooperative Graduate School)(AIST)

TAKEDA Yuji(AIST)

・Research on characteristics of human visual attention and memory
・Development of psychophysiological indices of cognitive states

YAMAMOTO Shinya(AIST)

・Multisensory integration and segregation
・Temporal and spatial representation
・Neural representation of the body and tools
・Effects of local brain temperature on the neural information
processing(AIST) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
April 2024－3－