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Hisao Nishijo

Hisao Nishijo

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Neuroscience

D-Index
64
Citations
12794
World Ranking
3306
National Ranking
89

Hisao Nishijo publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hisao Nishijo sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 416 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Hisao Nishijo D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hisao Nishijo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hisao Nishijo is affiliated with the University of Toyama in Japan and has a research profile spanning numerous publications across fields primarily focused on neuroscience and medicine.

The main areas of study for Nishijo include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these broader disciplines, their work delves into several subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Physiology

The research topics covered by Nishijo show a focused engagement with:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Nishijo's recent significant papers include:

  • "MacaquePose: A Novel "In the Wild" Macaque Monkey Pose Dataset for Markerless Motion Capture," 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • "Canonical versus non-canonical transsynaptic signaling of neuroligin 3 tunes development of sociality in mice," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Chemogenetic activation of nigrostriatal dopamine neurons in freely moving common marmosets," 2021, iScience
  • "Astaxanthin Ameliorated Parvalbumin-Positive Neuron Deficits and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Pathological Progression in the Hippocampus of AppNL-G-F/NL-G-F Mice," 2020, Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • "A Prototypical Template for Rapid Face Detection Is Embedded in the Monkey Superior Colliculus," 2020, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Frequent publication venues where Nishijo's research appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Toxics
  • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience

Key collaborators who have coauthored multiple papers with Nishijo include:

  • Jumpei Matsumoto
  • Hiroshi Nishimaru
  • Taketoshi Ono
  • Tsuyoshi Setogawa
  • Muneko Nishijo

Best Publications

  • Single neuron responses in amygdala of alert monkey during complex sensory stimulation with affective significance

    H Nishijo;T Ono;H Nishino

  • Developmental trajectories of amygdala and hippocampus from infancy to early adulthood in healthy individuals.

    Akiko Uematsu;Mie Matsui;Chiaki Tanaka;Tsutomu Takahashi

  • Retrospective and prospective coding for predicted reward in the sensory thalamus

    Yutaka Komura;Ryoi Tamura;Teruko Uwano;Hisao Nishijo

  • Pulvinar neurons reveal neurobiological evidence of past selection for rapid detection of snakes

    Quan Van Le;Lynne A. Isbell;Jumpei Matsumoto;Minh Nguyen

  • Neuronal responsiveness to various sensory stimuli, and associative learning in the rat amygdala

    T. Uwano;H. Nishijo;T. Ono;R. Tamura

  • Task-Dependent Representations in Rat Hippocampal Place Neurons

    Tsuneyuki Kobayashi;Hisao Nishijo;Masaji Fukuda;Jan Bures

  • Topographic distribution of modality-specific amygdalar neurons in alert monkey

    H Nishijo;T Ono;H Nishino

  • Monkey hippocampal neurons related to spatial and nonspatial functions

    T. Ono;K. Nakamura;H. Nishijo;S. Eifuku

  • Gustatory and multimodal neuronal responses in the amygdala during licking and discrimination of sensory stimuli in awake rats.

    Hisao Nishijo;Teruko Uwano;Ryoi Tamura;Taketoshi Ono

  • Spatial- and Task-Dependent Neuronal Responses during Real and Virtual Translocation in the Monkey Hippocampal Formation

    Nobuhisa Matsumura;Hisao Nishijo;Ryoi Tamura;Satoshi Eifuku

  • Neuronal correlates of face identification in the monkey anterior temporal cortical areas.

    Satoshi Eifuku;Wania C. De Souza;Ryoi Tamura;Hisao Nishijo

  • Rat amygdaloid neuron responses during auditory discrimination

    K. Muramoto;T. Ono;H. Nishijo;M. Fukuda

  • Amygdala role in conditioned associative learning

    Taketoshi Ono;Hisao Nishijo;Teruko Uwano

  • Specific acupuncture sensation correlates with EEGs and autonomic changes in human subjects

    Shigekazu Sakai;Etsuro Hori;Katsumi Umeno;Nobuhide Kitabayashi

  • Auditory thalamus integrates visual inputs into behavioral gains

    Yutaka Komura;Ryoi Tamura;Teruko Uwano;Hisao Nishijo

  • Generators of visual evoked potentials for faces and eyes in the human brain as determined by dipole localization.

    Takashi Shibata;Hisao Nishijo;Ryoi Tamura;Keiichi Miyamoto

  • Autonomic responses during inhalation of natural fragrance of Cedrol in humans.

    Samantha Dayawansa;Katsumi Umeno;Hiromasa Takakura;Etsuro Hori

  • Differential characteristics of face neuron responses within the anterior superior temporal sulcus of macaques.

    Wania C. De Souza;Satoshi Eifuku;Ryoi Tamura;Hisao Nishijo

  • Hypothalamic neuron involvement in integration of reward, aversion, and cue signals

    T. Ono;K. Nakamura;H. Nishijo;M. Fukuda

  • Responses from parabrachial gustatory neurons in behaving rats.

    H. Nishijo;R. Norgren

Frequent Co-Authors

Taketoshi Ono
Taketoshi Ono University of Toyama
Carlos Tomaz
Carlos Tomaz University of Brasília
Hitoo Nishino
Hitoo Nishino Nagoya City University
Mie Matsui
Mie Matsui Kanazawa University
Michio Suzuki
Michio Suzuki University of Toyama
David B. Teplow
David B. Teplow University of California, Los Angeles
Masahito Yamada
Masahito Yamada Kanazawa University
Lynne A. Isbell
Lynne A. Isbell University of California, Davis
Masahiko Takada
Masahiko Takada Kyoto University
Kohji Fukunaga
Kohji Fukunaga Tohoku University

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