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Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
5519
World Ranking
7939
National Ranking
269

Kunio Kitahama 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 Kunio Kitahama sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 148 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Kunio Kitahama 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 Kunio Kitahama sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Kunio Kitahama is a researcher affiliated with the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science in Japan. Their research spans several key fields within the biomedical sciences, focusing particularly on neuroscience and medicine.

The primary fields of study for Kunio Kitahama include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within neuroscience, their work is further detailed into several subfields, namely:

  • Physiology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Neurology

The researcher's main topics of work cover several important areas related to nervous system function and pathology:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Kitahama's collaborative efforts include frequent co-authorship with other scientists such as:

  • Keiko Ikemoto
  • M Geffard
  • Yves Tillet

Though there are no recent papers listed with specific titles or publication details, the combination of neuroscience and medicine, along with the focused subfields and topics, indicates a research trajectory that integrates cellular and molecular approaches with physiological and pathological investigations aimed at understanding pain and neurodegeneration.

Best Publications

  • Dominant expression of mRNA for prostaglandin D synthase in leptomeninges, choroid plexus, and oligodendrocytes of the adult rat brain.

    Yoshihiro Urade;Kunio Kitahama;Hitoshi Ohishi;Takeshi Kaneko

  • Long-lasting insomnia induced by preoptic neuron lesions and its transient reversal by muscimol injection into the posterior hypothalamus in the cat.

    M. Sallanon;M. Denoyer;K. Kitahama;C. Aubert

  • Importance of the ventrolateral region of the periaqueductal gray and adjacent tegmentum in the control of paradoxical sleep as studied by muscimol microinjections in the cat

    J.P Sastre;C Buda;K Kitahama;M Jouvet

  • Demonstration of GABAergic cell bodies in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: in situ hybridization of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) mRNA and immunocytochemistry of GAD and GABA.

    Hitoshi Okamura;Anne Bérod;Jean-Francois Julien;Michel Geffard

  • Neurons containing messenger RNA encoding glutamate decarboxylase in rat hypothalamus demonstrated by in situ hybridization, with special emphasis on cell groups in medial preoptic area, anterior hypothalamic area and dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus.

    H. Okamura;M. Abitbol;J.-F. Julien;S. Dumas

  • l-DOPA-immunoreactive neurons in the rat hypothalamic tuberal region

    H. Okamura;K. Kitahama;N. Mons;Y. Ibata

  • Increased paradoxical sleep in mice during acquisition of a shock avoidance task.

    Carlyle Smith;Carlyle Smith;Kunio Kitahama;Kunio Kitahama;Jean-Louis Valatx;Jean-Louis Valatx;Michel Jouvet;Michel Jouvet

  • Adrenergic neurons in human brain demonstrated by immunohistochemistry with antibodies to phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PNMT): discovery of a new group in the nucleus tractus solitarius.

    K. Kitahama;J. Pearson;L. Denoroy;N. Kopp

  • Anatomical distribution of prolactin-like immunoreactivity in the rat brain

    Luce Paut-Pagano;Rachida Roky;Jean-Louis Valatx;Kunio Kitahama

  • Distribution of prolactin receptors in the rat forebrain. Immunohistochemical study.

    Rachida Roky;Luce Paut-Pagano;Vincent Goffin;Kunio Kitahama

  • Dopamine- and dopa-immunoreactive neurons in the cat forebrain with reference to tyrosine hydroxylase-immunohistochemistry.

    Kunio Kitahama;Michel Geffard;Hitoshi Okamura;Ikuko Nagatsu

  • Distribution of dopamine-immunoreactive fibers in the rat brainstem.

    K Kitahama;I Nagatsu;M Geffard;T Maeda

  • Reversibility of Para-chlorophenylalanine-induced insomnia by intrahypothalamic microinjection of l-5-hydroxytryptophan

    M. Denoyer;M. Sallanon;K. Kitahama;C. Aubert

  • Effect of ambient temperature on the sleep-waking cycle in two strains of mice.

    Bernard Roussel;Pascal Turrillot;Kunio Kitahama

  • Neurotoxic lesion of the mesencephalic reticular formation and/or the posterior hypothalamus does not alter waking in the cat.

    Michel Denoyer;Marcelle Sallanon;Colette Buda;Kunio Kitahama

  • l-3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine as a neurotransmitter candidate in the central nervous system

    Yoshimi Misu;Kunio Kitahama;Yoshio Goshima

  • Demonstration of L-dopa decarboxylating neurons specific to human striatum

    Keiko Ikemoto;Kunio Kitahama;Anne Jouvet;Ryohachi Arai

  • Localization of candidate genomic regions influencing paradoxical sleep in mice.

    Mehdi Tafti;Paul Franken;Kunio Kitahama;Alain Malafosse

  • Comparative topography of dopamine- and tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive neurons in the rat arcuate nucleus.

    Hitoshi Okamura;Kunio Kitahama;Ikuko Nagatsu;Michel Geffard

  • Origin of the dopaminergic innervation of the rat dorsal raphe nucleus.

    Christelle Peyron;Pierre-Hervé Luppi;Kunio Kitahama;Patrice Fort

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Jouvet
Michel Jouvet Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Toshihiro Maeda
Toshihiro Maeda Osaka University
Ikuko Nagatsu
Ikuko Nagatsu Fujita Health University
Hitoshi Okamura
Hitoshi Okamura Kyoto University
Pierre-Hervé Luppi
Pierre-Hervé Luppi Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Nicole Mons
Nicole Mons University of Bordeaux
Anne Bérod
Anne Bérod Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Kazuya Sakai
Kazuya Sakai Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Jian-Sheng Lin
Jian-Sheng Lin Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Patrice Fort
Patrice Fort University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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