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Hiroshi Shibasaki

Hiroshi Shibasaki

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Neuroscience
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
106
Citations
39234
World Ranking
636
National Ranking
7

Medicine

D-Index
106
Citations
39225
World Ranking
6567
National Ranking
151

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Hiroshi Shibasaki is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has a research focus centered on medicine and neuroscience, with particular attention to neurology and related subfields. Their scholarly work spans multiple disciplines including medicine, neuroscience, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, reflecting a broad engagement with the life sciences.

The main fields of study in Shibasaki's research portfolio include:

  • Medicine (67 publications)
  • Neuroscience (15 publications)
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4 publications)

Within these domains, notable subfields of study are:

  • Neurology (29 publications)
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (8 publications)
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health (7 publications)
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (5 publications)
  • Rheumatology (5 publications)

Major research topics addressed by Shibasaki comprise:

  • Neurological disorders and treatments (28 publications)
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (16 publications)
  • Neurological and metabolic disorders (10 publications)
  • Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus (10 publications)
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (8 publications)
  • Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders (6 publications)
  • Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (6 publications)

Shibasaki has published scientific articles in journals such as:

  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Rinsho Shinkeigaku

Recent papers include:

  • "Evaluation of movement and brain activity," 2021, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • "A case of position dependent tremor," 2021, Rinsho Shinkeigaku

Frequent collaborators in their work are:

  • Mark Hallett
  • Stephen G. Reich
  • Bettina Balint
  • Kailash P. Bhatia

In addition to journal articles, Shibasaki has contributed to academic books published by Oxford University Press, including:

  • The Neurologic Examination (2022)
  • Involuntary Movements (2020)

Best Publications

  • What is the Bereitschaftspotential

    Hiroshi Shibasaki;Mark Hallett

  • Functional connectivity in the human language system: a cortico-cortical evoked potential study.

    Riki Matsumoto;Dileep R. Nair;Eric LaPresto;Imad Najm

  • Both primary motor cortex and supplementary motor area play an important role in complex finger movement

    Hiroshi Shibasaki;Norihiro Sadato;Hugh Lyshkow;Yoshiharu Yonekura

  • α7 Nicotinic Receptor Transduces Signals to Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase to Block A β-Amyloid-induced Neurotoxicity

    Takeshi Kihara;Shun Shimohama;Hideyuki Sawada;Kazuhiro Honda

  • Movement-related potentials recorded from supplementary motor area and primary motor area. Role of supplementary motor area in voluntary movements.

    Akio Ikeda;Hans O. Lüders;Richard C. Burgess;Hiroshi Shibasaki

  • A revised glossary of terms most commonly used by clinical electroencephalographers and updated proposal for the report format of the EEG findings. Revision 2017.

    Nick Kane;Jayant Acharya;Sandor Benickzy;Luis Caboclo

  • Expectation of pain enhances responses to nonpainful somatosensory stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex and parietal operculum/posterior insula: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Nobukatsu Sawamoto;Manabu Honda;Tomohisa Okada;Takashi Hanakawa

  • Brain functional activity during gait in normal subjects: a SPECT study.

    Hidenao Fukuyama;Yasuomi Ouchi;Shigeru Matsuzaki;Yasuhiro Nagahama

  • Somatosensory evoked potentials. Diagnostic criteria and abnormalities in cerebral lesions.

    Hiroshi Shibasaki;Yoriaki Yamashita;Sadatoshi Tsuji

  • Recording of movement-related potentials from scalp and cortex in man.

    R. Neshige;Hans Luders;H. Shibasaki

  • Mechanisms underlying gait disturbance in Parkinson's disease: a single photon emission computed tomography study.

    Takashi Hanakawa;Yukinori Katsumi;Hidenao Fukuyama;Manabu Honda

  • Functional connectivity in human cortical motor system: a cortico-cortical evoked potential study.

    Riki Matsumoto;Dileep R. Nair;Eric LaPresto;William Bingaman

  • Electrophysiological studies of myoclonus

    Hiroshi Shibasaki;Mark Hallett

  • Tonic vibration reflex and muscle afferent block in writer's cramp

    Ryuji Kaji;John C. Rothwell;Mari Katayama;Tomoko Ikeda

  • Brain structures related to active and passive finger movements in man

    Tatsuya Mima;Norihiro Sadato;Shogo Yazawa;Takashi Hanakawa

  • The neural basis of individual differences in working memory capacity : an fMRI study

    Mariko Osaka;Naoyuki Osaka;Hirohito M. Kondo;Masanao Morishita

  • Pathogenesis of giant somatosensory evoked potentials in progressive myoclonic epilepsy.

    Hiroshi Shibasaki;Yoriaki Yamashita;Ryuji Neshige;Shozo Tobimatsu

  • The Role of Rostral Brodmann Area 6 in Mental-operation Tasks: an Integrative Neuroimaging Approach

    Takashi Hanakawa;Manabu Honda;Nobukatsu Sawamoto;Tomohisa Okada

  • The neural basis of executive function in working memory: an fMRI study based on individual differences.

    Naoyuki Osaka;Mariko Osaka;Hirohito M. Kondo;Masanao Morishita

  • Attention Modulates Both Primary and Second Somatosensory Cortical Activities in Humans: A Magnetoencephalographic Study

    Tatsuya Mima;Takashi Nagamine;Kaori Nakamura;Hiroshi Shibasaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Akio Ikeda
Akio Ikeda Kyoto University
Takashi Nagamine
Takashi Nagamine Sapporo Medical University
Jun Kimura
Jun Kimura University of Iowa
Hidenao Fukuyama
Hidenao Fukuyama Kyoto University
Ryusuke Kakigi
Ryusuke Kakigi National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Manabu Honda
Manabu Honda National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Tatsuya Mima
Tatsuya Mima Ritsumeikan University
Nobuhiro Mikuni
Nobuhiro Mikuni Sapporo Medical University
Riki Matsumoto
Riki Matsumoto Kobe University
Nobuo Hashimoto
Nobuo Hashimoto Kyoto University

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