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Masaru Mimura

Masaru Mimura

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Psychology
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
73
Citations
19292
World Ranking
1972
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Masaru Mimura is a researcher affiliated with Keio University in Japan with a focus on medicine and neuroscience. Their work spans over 490 publications in medicine and 240 in neuroscience, emphasizing psychiatric and cognitive studies.

Their research extensively covers subfields including:

  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Pharmacology

Main topics addressed in their research involve:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Mimura has contributed significantly to several academic journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Some of the recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Mimura include:

  • Gut microbiota and major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Association of Sleep Duration With All- and Major-Cause Mortality Among Adults in Japan, China, Singapore, and Korea, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Glutamatergic and GABAergic metabolite levels in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a meta-analysis of 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Dopaminergic dysfunction and excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in treatment-resistant schizophrenia and novel neuromodulatory treatment, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators of Mimura include:

  • Hiroyuki Uchida
  • Yoshihiro Noda
  • Shinichiro Nakajima
  • Taishiro Kishimoto
  • Masataka Wada

Best Publications

  • Reliability and validity of Japanese version of the Mini‐International Neuropsychiatric Interview

    Tempei Otsubo;Katsutoshi Tanaka;Katsutoshi Tanaka;Rumiko Koda;Junko Shinoda

  • Long-Acting Injectable vs Oral Antipsychotics for Relapse Prevention in Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials

    Taishiro Kishimoto;Taishiro Kishimoto;Alfred Robenzadeh;Claudia Leucht;Stefan Leucht

  • Gut microbiota and major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Kenji Sanada;Shinichiro Nakajima;Shunya Kurokawa;Alberto Barceló-Soler

  • Neuroimaging-aided differential diagnosis of the depressive state

    Ryu Takizawa;Masato Fukuda;Shingo Kawasaki;Kiyoto Kasai

  • Glutamatergic neurometabolite levels in major depressive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies

    Sho Moriguchi;Sho Moriguchi;Akihiro Takamiya;Yoshihiro Noda;Nobuyuki Horita

  • Bifidobacterium-Rich Fecal Donor May Be a Positive Predictor for Successful Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

    Shinta Mizuno;Tatsuhiro Masaoka;Makoto Naganuma;Taishiro Kishimoto

  • Kynurenine pathway in depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Kamiyu Ogyu;Kaoruhiko Kubo;Yoshihiro Noda;Yusuke Iwata

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Modulates Resting-State EEG Oscillatory Pattern and Phase Synchronization in Nodes of the Default Mode Network in Patients With Depressive Disorder.

    Akihiro Takamiya;Jinichi Hirano;Bun Yamagata;Shigeki Takei

  • Impaired decision-making in Parkinson's disease

    Masaru Mimura;Reiko Oeda;Mitsuru Kawamura

  • Pharmacological Strategies to Counteract Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain and Metabolic Adverse Effects in Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Yuya Mizuno;Takefumi Suzuki;Atsuo Nakagawa;Kazunari Yoshida

  • The effect of fecal microbiota transplantation on psychiatric symptoms among patients with irritable bowel syndrome, functional diarrhea and functional constipation: An open-label observational study.

    Shunya Kurokawa;Taishiro Kishimoto;Shinta Mizuno;Tatsuhiro Masaoka

  • Defining treatment-resistant schizophrenia and response to antipsychotics: A review and recommendation

    Takefumi Suzuki;Gary Remington;Gary Remington;Benoit H. Mulsant;Benoit H. Mulsant;Hiroyuki Uchida;Hiroyuki Uchida

  • In Vivo Visualization of Subtle, Transient, and Local Activity of Astrocytes Using an Ultrasensitive Ca2+ Indicator

    Kazunori Kanemaru;Hiroshi Sekiya;Ming Xu;Kaname Satoh

  • Suicide and Microglia: Recent Findings and Future Perspectives Based on Human Studies.

    Hisaomi Suzuki;Masahiro Ohgidani;Nobuki Kuwano;Fabrice Chrétien

  • Decision making in Parkinson's disease: Analysis of behavioral and physiological patterns in the Iowa gambling task.

    Mutsutaka Kobayakawa;Shinichi Koyama;Shinichi Koyama;Masaru Mimura;Mitsuru Kawamura

  • Association of Sleep Duration with All- And Major-Cause Mortality among Adults in Japan, China, Singapore, and Korea

    Thomas Svensson;Eiko Saito;Akiko Kishi Svensson;Akiko Kishi Svensson;Olle Melander

  • Validity of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale as a screening instrument of major depressive disorder among Japanese workers

    Koji Wada;Koji Wada;Katsutoshi Tanaka;Gilles Theriault;Toshihiko Satoh

  • Recognition of emotion from moving facial and prosodic stimuli in depressed patients

    Y Kan;M Mimura;K Kamijima;M Kawamura

  • Dopamine D2 Receptor Occupancy and Cognition in Schizophrenia: Analysis of the CATIE Data

    Hitoshi Sakurai;Robert R. Bies;Robert R. Bies;Scott T. Stroup;Richard S. E. Keefe

  • It's not my fault: postdictive modulation of intentional binding by monetary gains and losses.

    Keisuke Takahata;Hidehiko Takahashi;Hidehiko Takahashi;Takaki Maeda;Satoshi Umeda

  • Time estimation by patients with frontal lesions and by Korsakoff amnesics.

    Masaru Mimura;Marcel Kinsbourne;Margaret O'connor

Frequent Co-Authors

Ariel Graff-Guerrero
Ariel Graff-Guerrero Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Hiroshi Ishiguro Osaka University
Manami Inoue
Manami Inoue National Cancer Centre
Fumiko Hoeft
Fumiko Hoeft University of Connecticut
Toshiaki A. Furukawa
Toshiaki A. Furukawa Kyoto University
Julie R. Korenberg
Julie R. Korenberg University of Utah
Brian W. Haas
Brian W. Haas University of Georgia
Ursula Bellugi
Ursula Bellugi Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Debra L. Mills
Debra L. Mills Bangor University

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