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Makoto Mizunami

Makoto Mizunami

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Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
5234
World Ranking
8379
National Ranking
294

Makoto Mizunami 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 Makoto Mizunami sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 140 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Makoto Mizunami 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 Makoto Mizunami sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Makoto Mizunami is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and has a research focus rooted primarily in neuroscience and agricultural and biological sciences. Their scientific work principally explores neurobiology and insect physiology, animal behavior, and reproduction, as well as memory and neural mechanisms.

Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, including:

  • Neuroscience
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these primary areas, Mizunami's subfields of study comprise:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics
  • Insect Science
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The major topics addressed in Mizunami's work include:

  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect Utilization and Effects
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior

Mizunami has contributed to a range of journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • iScience
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Their recent papers include:

  • What Is Learned in Pavlovian Conditioning in Crickets? Revisiting the S-S and S-R Learning Theories, 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Silencing the odorant receptor co-receptor impairs olfactory reception in a sensillum-specific manner in the cockroach, 2022, iScience
  • Appetitive and aversive social learning with living and dead conspecifics in crickets, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • oskar acts with the transcription factor Creb to regulate long-term memory in crickets, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Octopamine neurons mediate reward signals in social learning in an insect, 2023, iScience

Frequent collaborators in their research projects include:

  • Takayuki Watanabe
  • Kanta Terao
  • Y. Matsumoto
  • Kosuke Tateishi
  • Hidehiro Watanabe

Best Publications

  • Mushroom bodies of the cockroach: their participation in place memory.

    Makoto Mizunami;Josette M. Weibrecht;Nicholas J. Strausfeld

  • Participation of octopaminergic reward system and dopaminergic punishment system in insect olfactory learning revealed by pharmacological study.

    Sae Unoki;Yukihisa Matsumoto;Makoto Mizunami

  • Roles of octopaminergic and dopaminergic neurons in mediating reward and punishment signals in insect visual learning.

    Sae Unoki;Yukihisa Matsumoto;Makoto Mizunami

  • Mushroom bodies of the cockroach: Activity and identities of neurons recorded in freely moving animals

    Makoto Mizunami;Ryuichi Okada;Yongsheng Li;Nicholas J. Strausfeld

  • Roles of octopaminergic and dopaminergic neurons in appetitive and aversive memory recall in an insect.

    Makoto Mizunami;Sae Unoki;Yasuhiro Mori;Daisuke Hirashima

  • Temporal determinants of long-term retention of olfactory memory in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.

    Yukihisa Matsumoto;Makoto Mizunami;Makoto Mizunami

  • Knockout crickets for the study of learning and memory: Dopamine receptor Dop1 mediates aversive but not appetitive reinforcement in crickets

    Hiroko Awata;Takahito Watanabe;Yoshitaka Hamanaka;Taro Mito

  • Critical role of nitric oxide-cGMP cascade in the formation of cAMP-dependent long-term memory

    Yukihisa Matsumoto;Sae Unoki;Hitoshi Aonuma;Makoto Mizunami

  • Convergence of multimodal sensory pathways to the mushroom body calyx in Drosophila melanogaster

    Ryosuke Yagi;Yuta Mabuchi;Makoto Mizunami;Nobuaki K. Tanaka

  • Distribution of Dendrites of Descending Neurons and Its Implications for the Basic Organization of the Cockroach Brain

    Ryuichci Okada;Midori Sakura;Makoto Mizunami;Makoto Mizunami

  • Projection neurons originating from thermo- and hygrosensory glomeruli in the antennal lobe of the cockroach

    Hiroshi Nishino;Shingo Yamashita;Yoshiyuki Yamazaki;Michiko Nishikawa

  • A new role for the insect mushroom bodies: place memory and motor control

    Makoto Mizunami;Josette M. Weibrecht;Nicholas J. Strausfeld

  • Context-dependent olfactory learning in an insect.

    Yukihisa Matsumoto;Makoto Mizunami

  • Functional diversity of neural organization in insect ocellar systems.

    Makoto Mizunami

  • Functional and topographic segregation of glomeruli revealed by local staining of antennal sensory neurons in the honeybee Apis mellifera

    Hiroshi Nishino;Michiko Nishikawa;Makoto Mizunami;Fumio Yokohari

  • Sensory responses and movement-related activities in extrinsic neurons of the cockroach mushroom bodies

    R. Okada;J. Ikeda;M. Mizunami

  • Classical olfactory conditioning in the cockroach Periplaneta americana.

    Hidehiro Watanabe;Yuko Kobayashi;Midori Sakura;Yukihisa Matsumoto;Yukihisa Matsumoto

  • Why the carrot is more effective than the stick: different dynamics of punishment memory and reward memory and its possible biological basis.

    Yoshihiro Nakatani;Yukihisa Matsumoto;Yasuhiro Mori;Daisuke Hirashima

  • Lifetime olfactory memory in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.

    Y. Matsumoto;M. Mizunami

  • Information Processing in the Insect Ocellar System: Comparative Approaches t o the Evolution of Visual Processing and Neural Circuits

    Makoto Mizunami

Frequent Co-Authors

Minoru Taya
Minoru Taya University of Washington
Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh
Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh University of Washington
Nicholas J. Strausfeld
Nicholas J. Strausfeld University of Arizona
Sumihare Noji
Sumihare Noji University of Tokushima
Jean-Christophe Sandoz
Jean-Christophe Sandoz University of Paris-Saclay
Martin Giurfa
Martin Giurfa Sorbonne University
Randolf Menzel
Randolf Menzel Freie Universität Berlin
Toru Miura
Toru Miura University of Tokyo

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