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Kazuo Yamada is affiliated with the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the field of neuroscience, with specific contributions to behavioral neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, social psychology, developmental neuroscience, and genetics. Their work investigates key topics such as stress responses and cortisol, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, memory and neural mechanisms, tryptophan and brain disorders, anesthesia and neurotoxicity research, and animal behavior and welfare studies.

The scientist has published extensively in several journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • IBRO Neuroscience Reports
  • Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE
  • Neuroscience

Notable recent papers include:

  • CRISPR/Cas9-engineered Gad1 elimination in rats leads to complex behavioral changes: implications for schizophrenia, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Long-term associative memory in rats: Effects of familiarization period in object-place-context recognition test, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Socially Transferred Stress Experience Modulates Social Affective Behaviors in Rats, 2022, Neuroscience
  • Caffeine facilitates extinction of auditory fear conditioning in rats, 2022, Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
  • Dopaminergic function in spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 patients with and without parkinsonism, 2020, Journal of Neurology

Kazuo Yamada's collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as:

  • Michimasa Toyoshima
  • Yukio Ichitani
  • Takaaki Ozawa
  • Hiroko Mochizuki-Kawai
  • Shota Shimoda

Best Publications

  • DNA Methylation Status of SOX10 Correlates with Its Downregulation and Oligodendrocyte Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

    Kazuya Iwamoto;Miki Bundo;Kazuo Yamada;Hitomi Takao

  • Fabp7 Maps to a Quantitative Trait Locus for a Schizophrenia Endophenotype

    Akiko Watanabe;Tomoko Toyota;Yuji Owada;Takeshi Hayashi

  • Two genetic variants of CD38 in subjects with autism spectrum disorder and controls.

    Toshio Munesue;Shigeru Yokoyama;Kazuhiko Nakamura;Ayyappan Anitha

  • Genetic analysis of the calcineurin pathway identifies members of the EGR gene family, specifically EGR3, as potential susceptibility candidates in schizophrenia.

    Kazuo Yamada;David J. Gerber;Yoshimi Iwayama;Tetsuo Ohnishi

  • Identification of multiple serine racemase (SRR) mRNA isoforms and genetic analyses of SRR and DAO in schizophrenia and D-serine levels.

    Kazuo Yamada;Tetsuo Ohnishi;Kenji Hashimoto;Hisako Ohba

  • Genome-wide profiling of promoter methylation in human

    Izuho Hatada;Masayuki Fukasawa;Mika Kimura;Sumiyo Morita

  • Association between polymorphisms in the promoter region of the sialyltransferase 8B (SIAT8B) gene and schizophrenia.

    Makoto Arai;Kazuo Yamada;Tomoko Toyota;Nanako Obata

  • Brain region-specific altered expression and association of mitochondria-related genes in autism

    Ayyappan Anitha;Kazuhiko Nakamura;Ismail Thanseem;Kazuo Yamada

  • No association between the Val66Met polymorphism of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene and bipolar disorder in a Japanese population: a multicenter study.

    Hiroshi Kunugi;Yoshimi Iijima;Masahiko Tatsumi;Mariko Yoshida

  • Mitochondrial DNA 3644T→C mutation associated with bipolar disorder

    Kae Munakata;Masashi Tanaka;Kanako Mori;Shinsuke Washizuka

  • A microsatellite repeat in the promoter of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor 2A subunit (GRIN2A) gene suppresses transcriptional activity and correlates with chronic outcome in schizophrenia.

    Masanari Itokawa;Kazuo Yamada;Kiyoshi Yoshitsugu;Tomoko Toyota

  • Genetic analyses of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene in autism

    Katsuhiko Nishimura;Kazuhiko Nakamura;A. Anitha;Kazuo Yamada

  • Genomewide high-density SNP linkage analysis of 236 Japanese families supports the existence of schizophrenia susceptibility loci on chromosomes 1p, 14q, and 20p.

    Tadao Arinami;Tsuyuka Ohtsuki;Hiroki Ishiguro;Hiroshi Ujike

  • Genome-wide Association Study of Autism Spectrum Disorder in the East Asian Populations.

    Xiaoxi Liu;Takafumi Shimada;Takeshi Otowa;Yu-Yu Wu

  • Genetic analyses of roundabout (ROBO) axon guidance receptors in autism.

    A. Anitha;Kazuhiko Nakamura;Kazuo Yamada;Shiro Suda

  • A family-based association study and gene expression analyses of netrin-G1 and -G2 genes in schizophrenia.

    Mika Aoki-Suzuki;Mika Aoki-Suzuki;Kazuo Yamada;Joanne Meerabux;Yoshimi Iwayama-Shigeno

  • Association between schizophrenia with ocular misalignment and polyalanine length variation in PMX2B

    Tomoko Toyota;Kiyoshi Yoshitsugu;Mitsuru Ebihara;Kazuo Yamada

  • Distinguishable haplotype blocks in the HTR3A and HTR3B region in the Japanese reveal evidence of association of HTR3B with female major depression.

    Kazuo Yamada;Eiji Hattori;Yoshimi Iwayama;Tetsuo Ohnishi

  • Association between serotonin 4 receptor gene polymorphisms and bipolar disorder in Japanese case-control samples and the NIMH Genetics Initiative Bipolar Pedigrees.

    T Ohtsuki;H Ishiguro;S D Detera-Wadleigh;T Toyota

  • Genome-Wide Association Study of Schizophrenia in Japanese Population

    Kazuo Yamada;Yoshimi Iwayama;Eiji Hattori;Kazuya Iwamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeo Yoshikawa
Takeo Yoshikawa RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Tadafumi Kato
Tadafumi Kato Juntendo University
Yoshio Minabe
Yoshio Minabe Kanazawa University
Norio Ozaki
Norio Ozaki Nagoya University
Mitsuru Kikuchi
Mitsuru Kikuchi Kanazawa University
Nakao Iwata
Nakao Iwata Fujita Health University
Hiroshi Kunugi
Hiroshi Kunugi Teikyo University
Hideo Matsuzaki
Hideo Matsuzaki University of Fukui
Shinichiro Nanko
Shinichiro Nanko Teikyo University
Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh
Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh National Institutes of Health

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