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Overview

Kaoru Takakusaki is affiliated with Asahikawa Medical University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of medicine and neuroscience, with significant contributions in various subfields such as neurology, physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and gastroenterology.

The scientist has produced numerous scholarly papers, working extensively in topics related to balance, gait, and falls prevention, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, gastrointestinal motility and disorders, as well as Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments. Additional research interests include motor control and adaptation, neurological disorders and treatments, and stroke rehabilitation and recovery.

Takakusaki's recent publications include:

  • Discussion of Research Priorities for Gait Disorders in Parkinson's Disease, 2021, Movement Disorders
  • Neurophysiological mechanisms of gait disturbance in advanced Parkinson's disease patients, 2022, Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Increase in muscle tone promotes the use of ankle strategies during perturbed stance, 2021, Gait & Posture
  • Phlorizin attenuates visceral hypersensitivity and colonic hyperpermeability in a rat model of irritable bowel syndrome, 2021, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy
  • Activation of central adenosine A2B receptors mediate brain ghrelin-induced improvement of intestinal barrier function through the vagus nerve in rats, 2021, Experimental Neurology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Takakusaki are:

  • Ryosuke Chiba
  • Toshikatsu Okumura
  • Kohei Kaminishi
  • Jun Ota
  • Saori Miyagishi

The scientist publishes regularly in a number of venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Neurogastroenterology & Motility
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Movement Disorders
  • Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Journal of Pharmacological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Functional Neuroanatomy for Posture and Gait Control

    Kaoru Takakusaki

  • Basal ganglia efferents to the brainstem centers controlling postural muscle tone and locomotion: a new concept for understanding motor disorders in basal ganglia dysfunction.

    K. Takakusaki;T. Habaguchi;J. Ohtinata-Sugimoto;K. Saitoh

  • Neurophysiology of gait: From the spinal cord to the frontal lobe

    Kaoru Takakusaki

  • Role of basal ganglia – brainstem pathways in the control of motor behaviors

    K. Takakusaki;K. Saitoh;H. Harada;M. Kashiwayanagi

  • Glutamatergic and cholinergic inputs from the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus to dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta

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  • Brainstem control of locomotion and muscle tone with special reference to the role of the mesopontine tegmentum and medullary reticulospinal systems

    Kaoru Takakusaki;Ryosuke Chiba;Tsukasa Nozu;Toshikatsu Okumura

  • Human upright posture control models based on multisensory inputs; in fast and slow dynamics.

    Ryosuke Chiba;Kaoru Takakusaki;Jun Ota;Arito Yozu

  • Substrates for normal gait and pathophysiology of gait disturbances with respect to the basal ganglia dysfunction.

    Kaoru Takakusaki;Nozomi Tomita;Masafumi Yano

  • Physiology of freezing of gait.

    Anke H. Snijders;Kaoru Takakusaki;Bettina Debu;Andres M. Lozano

  • Site-specific postural and locomotor changes evoked in awake, freely moving intact cats by stimulating the brainstem

    S. Mori;T. Sakamoto;Y. Ohta;K. Takakusaki

  • Role of basal ganglia–brainstem systems in the control of postural muscle tone and locomotion

    Kaoru Takakusaki;Junko Oohinata-Sugimoto;Kazuya Saitoh;Tatsuya Habaguchi

  • Forebrain control of locomotor behaviors.

    Kaoru Takakusaki

  • Cholinergic and noncholinergic tegmental pedunculopontine projection neurons in rats revealed by intracellular labeling

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  • Orexinergic projections to the cat midbrain mediate alternation of emotional behavioural states from locomotion to cataplexy

    Kaoru Takakusaki;Kazumi Takahashi;Kazuya Saitoh;Hirofumi Harada

  • Medullary reticulospinal tract mediating the generalized motor inhibition in cats: parallel inhibitory mechanisms acting on motoneurons and on interneuronal transmission in reflex pathways.

    K Takakusaki;J Kohyama;K Matsuyama;S Mori

  • Multi-segmental innervation of single pontine reticulospinal axons in the cervico-thoracic region of the cat: anterograde PHA-L tracing study.

    Kiyoji Matsuyama;Kaoru Takakusaki;Katsumi Nakajima;Shigemi Mori

  • Electrical and chemical stimulations of the pontine micturition center.

    Kimio Sugaya;Kiyoji Matsuyama;Kaoru Takakusaki;Shigemi Mori

  • Single medullary reticulospinal neurons exert postsynaptic inhibitory effects via inhibitory interneurons upon alpha-motoneurons innervating cat hindlimb muscles

    K. Takakusaki;Y. Ohta;S. Mori

  • Evidence for a role of basal ganglia in the regulation of rapid eye movement sleep by electrical and chemical stimulation for the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus and the substantia nigra pars reticulata in decerebrate cats.

    K Takakusaki;K Saitoh;H Harada;T Okumura

  • Discharge properties of medullary reticulospinal neurons during postural changes induced by intrapontine injections of carbachol, atropine and serotonin, and their functional linkages to hindlimb motoneurons in cats.

    Kaoru Takakusaki;Naotake Shimoda;Kiyoji Matsuyama;Shigemi Mori

  • Changes in the excitability of hindlimb motoneurons during muscular atonia induced by stimulating the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus in cats.

    K Takakusaki;T Habaguchi;K Saitoh;J Kohyama

  • Role of Basal Ganglia-Brainstem Systems in the Control of Postural Muscle Tone and Locomotion

    K. Takakusaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigemi Mori
Shigemi Mori National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Hajime Asama
Hajime Asama University of Tokyo
Tadashi Isa
Tadashi Isa Kyoto University
Alfonso Fasano
Alfonso Fasano University Health Network
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Andres M. Lozano
Andres M. Lozano University of Toronto
Tipu Z. Aziz
Tipu Z. Aziz University of Oxford

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