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Nobukatsu Sawamoto

Nobukatsu Sawamoto

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
40
Citations
5992
World Ranking
5409
National Ranking
17

Overview

Nobukatsu Sawamoto is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has a significant publication record in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Cognitive Neuroscience. The main topics of Sawamoto's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sawamoto include:

  • Ryōsuke Takahashi
  • Atsushi Shima
  • Yasutaka Fushimi
  • Yuji Nakamoto
  • Tomohisa Okada

Their work has been published extensively in several leading venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Japanese Journal of Radiology
  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Neuroscience Letters

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on neurodegenerative diseases and neuroimaging technologies. These include:

  • Phase I/II trial of iPS-cell-derived dopaminergic cells for Parkinson's disease, 2025, Nature
  • Neuroimaging at 7 Tesla: a pictorial narrative review, 2022, Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
  • Motor Progression and Nigrostriatal Neurodegeneration in Parkinson Disease, 2022, Annals of Neurology
  • Denoising approach with deep learning-based reconstruction for neuromelanin-sensitive MRI: image quality and diagnostic performance, 2023, Japanese Journal of Radiology
  • Brain MRI with Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping: Relationship to CT Attenuation Values, 2020, Radiology

Sawamoto's research encompasses both clinical and technological domains, addressing complex neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease through the application of cutting-edge neuroimaging methods and stem cell technologies.

Best Publications

  • Expectation of pain enhances responses to nonpainful somatosensory stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex and parietal operculum/posterior insula: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Nobukatsu Sawamoto;Manabu Honda;Tomohisa Okada;Takashi Hanakawa

  • The Human Premotor Cortex Is 'Mirror' Only for Biological Actions

    Yen F. Tai;Christoph Scherfler;David J. Brooks;Nobukatsu Sawamoto

  • The Role of Rostral Brodmann Area 6 in Mental-operation Tasks: an Integrative Neuroimaging Approach

    Takashi Hanakawa;Manabu Honda;Nobukatsu Sawamoto;Tomohisa Okada

  • Cognitive deficits and striato-frontal dopamine release in Parkinson's disease

    Nobukatsu Sawamoto;Paola Piccini;Gary Hotton;Nicola Pavese

  • Transient Neural Activity in the Medial Superior Frontal Gyrus and Precuneus Time Locked with Attention Shift between Object Features

    Yasuhiro Nagahama;Tomohisa Okada;Yukinori Katsumi;Takuya Hayashi

  • Primary somatosensory cortex is actively involved in pain processing in human

    Masutaro Kanda;Takashi Nagamine;Akio Ikeda;Shinji Ohara

  • Regional cerebral blood flow in Parkinson disease with nonpsychotic visual hallucinations.

    N. Oishi;F. Udaka;M. Kameyama;N. Sawamoto

  • Anterior and posterior cingulum abnormalities and their association with psychopathology in schizophrenia: a diffusion tensor imaging study

    Hironobu Fujiwara;Chihiro Namiki;Kazuyuki Hirao;Jun Miyata

  • Cognitive Slowing in Parkinson's Disease: A Behavioral Evaluation Independent of Motor Slowing

    Nobukatsu Sawamoto;Manabu Honda;Manabu Honda;Takashi Hanakawa;Hidenao Fukuyama

  • Intraoperative dorsal language network mapping by using single-pulse electrical stimulation

    Yukihiro Yamao;Riki Matsumoto;Takeharu Kunieda;Yoshiki Arakawa

  • Abnormal cortical mechanisms of voluntary muscle relaxation in patients with writer's cramp: an fMRI study.

    T. Oga;M. Honda;K. Toma;N. Murase

  • The role of the uncinate fasciculus in memory and emotional recognition in amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

    Saori Fujie;Chihiro Namiki;Hiroko Nishi;Makiko Yamada

  • Theory of mind and frontal lobe pathology in schizophrenia: A voxel-based morphometry study

    Kazuyuki Hirao;Jun Miyata;Hironobu Fujiwara;Makiko Yamada

  • Prefrontal hypofunction in patients with intractable mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

    S. Takaya;T. Hanakawa;K. Hashikawa;A. Ikeda

  • Hemispheric asymmetry of the arcuate fasciculus: a preliminary diffusion tensor tractography study in patients with unilateral language dominance defined by Wada test.

    Riki Matsumoto;Tsutomu Okada;Nobuhiro Mikuni;Takahiro Mitsueda-Ono

  • The presence of multiple microbleeds as a predictor of subsequent cerebral hemorrhage in patients with moyamoya disease.

    Ken-ichiro Kikuta;Yasushi Takagi;Kazuhiko Nozaki;Nobukatsu Sawamoto

  • Thalamocortical disconnection in the orbitofrontal region associated with cortical thinning in schizophrenia.

    Manabu Kubota;Jun Miyata;Akihiko Sasamoto;Genichi Sugihara

  • Amygdalar enlargement in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

    Takahiro Mitsueda-Ono;Akio Ikeda;Morito Inouchi;Shigetoshi Takaya

  • Cognitive slowing in Parkinson disease is accompanied by hypofunctioning of the striatum.

    N. Sawamoto;M. Honda;T. Hanakawa;T. Aso

  • Modulation of the Visual Word Retrieval System in Writing: A Functional MRI Study on the Japanese Orthographies

    Kimihiro Nakamura;Manabu Honda;Shigeru Hirano;Tatsuhide Oga

  • Overlapping connections within the motor cortico-basal ganglia circuit: fMRI-tractography analysis.

    Takuya Oguri;Nobukatsu Sawamoto;Hayato Tabu;Shin-ichi Urayama

Frequent Co-Authors

Hidenao Fukuyama
Hidenao Fukuyama Kyoto University
Toshiya Murai
Toshiya Murai Kyoto University
Akio Ikeda
Akio Ikeda Kyoto University
Hidehiko Takahashi
Hidehiko Takahashi Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Riki Matsumoto
Riki Matsumoto Kobe University
Tomohisa Okada
Tomohisa Okada Kyoto University
Hiroshi Shibasaki
Hiroshi Shibasaki Kyoto University
Takashi Hanakawa
Takashi Hanakawa Kyoto University
Kazuyuki Hirao
Kazuyuki Hirao Kyoto University
Takeharu Kunieda
Takeharu Kunieda Ehime University

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