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Ritsuko Hanajima

Ritsuko Hanajima

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Neuroscience

D-Index
55
Citations
10676
World Ranking
4724
National Ranking
143

Overview

Ritsuko Hanajima is affiliated with Tottori University in Japan and has made contributions in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Physiology.

Their research includes multiple topics such as Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neurological disorders and treatments, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, Vestibular and auditory disorders, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ritsuko Hanajima include:

  • Yoshikazu Ugawa
  • Takenobu Murakami
  • Tadashi Adachi
  • Yasuhiro Watanabe
  • Hiroshi Takigawa

Key venues for publication where Ritsuko Hanajima has frequently contributed are:

  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Rinsho Shinkeigaku
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Brain stimulation

Representative recent papers include:

  • "CGG expansion in NOTCH2NLC is associated with oculopharyngodistal myopathy with neurological manifestations," 2020, Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • "Safety and tolerability of bosutinib in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (iDReAM study): A multicentre, open-label, dose-escalation phase 1 trial," 2022, EClinicalMedicine
  • "Clinical course of pathologically confirmed corticobasal degeneration and corticobasal syndrome," 2023, Brain Communications
  • "High-dose ubiquinol supplementation in multiple-system atrophy: a multicentre, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled phase 2 trial," 2023, EClinicalMedicine
  • "Cognitive and behavioral status in Japanese ALS patients: a multicenter study," 2020, Journal of Neurology

Best Publications

  • Magnetic stimulation over the cerebellum in humans

    Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yoshikazu Uesaka;Yasuo Terao;Ritsuko Hanajima

  • Preferential activation of different I waves by transcranial magnetic stimulation with a figure-of-eight-shaped coil.

    K Sakai;Y Ugawa;Y Terao;R Hanajima

  • Paired-pulse magnetic stimulation of the human motor cortex: differences among I waves

    Ritsuko Hanajima;Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yasuo Terao;Katsuyuki Sakai

  • Interhemispheric facilitation of the hand motor area in humans.

    Ritsuko Hanajima;Yoshikazu Ugawa;Katsuyuki Machii;Hitoshi Mochizuki

  • Expansions of intronic TTTCA and TTTTA repeats in benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy.

    Hiroyuki Ishiura;Koichiro Doi;Jun Mitsui;Jun Yoshimura

  • Bidirectional long-term motor cortical plasticity and metaplasticity induced by quadripulse transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Masashi Hamada;Yasuo Terao;Ritsuko Hanajima;Yuichiro Shirota

  • Mechanisms of intracortical I-wave facilitation elicited with paired-pulse magnetic stimulation in humans.

    Ritsuko Hanajima;Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yasuo Terao;Hiroyuki Enomoto

  • Magnetic stimulation of corticospinal pathways at the foramen magnum level in humans.

    Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yoshikazu Uesaka;Yasuo Terao;Ritsuko Hanajima

  • RESPONSE OF ANTI-NMDA RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS WITHOUT TUMOR TO IMMUNOTHERAPY INCLUDING RITUXIMAB

    H. Ishiura;S. Matsuda;M. Higashihara;M. Hasegawa

  • Decreased sensory cortical excitability after 1 Hz rTMS over the ipsilateral primary motor cortex.

    H. Enomoto;Y. Ugawa;R. Hanajima;K. Yuasa

  • Initiation and inhibitory control of saccades with the progression of Parkinson's disease - changes in three major drives converging on the superior colliculus.

    Yasuo Terao;Hideki Fukuda;Akihiro Yugeta;Okihide Hikosaka

  • Shortening of simple reaction time by peripheral electrical and submotor-threshold magnetic cortical stimulation

    Yasuo Terao;Y. Ugawa;Masahiko Suzuki;Katsuyuki Sakai

  • Facilitatory effect of tonic voluntary contraction on responses to motor cortex stimulation

    Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yasuo Terao;Ritsuko Hanajima;Katsuyuki Sakai

  • Short and long duration transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the human hand motor area.

    Toshiaki Furubayashi;Yasuo Terao;Noritoshi Arai;Shingo Okabe

  • Magnetic stimulation over the cerebellum in patients with ataxia

    Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yasuo Terao;Ritsuko Hanajima;Katsuyuki Sakai

  • Ipsilateral cortico-cortical inhibition of the motor cortex in various neurological disorders

    Ritsuko Hanajima;Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yasuo Terao;Katsuhisa Ogata

  • Further evidence to support different mechanisms underlying intracortical inhibition of the motor cortex.

    Ritsuko Hanajima;Toshiaki Furubayashi;Nobue Kobayashi Iwata;Yasushi Shiio

  • Predominant activation of I1-waves from the leg motor area by transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Yasuo Terao;Yoshikazu Ugawa;Ritsuko Hanajima;Katsuyuki Machii

  • Effect of Low-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Interhemispheric Inhibition

    Pramod Kr. Pal;Ritsuko Hanajima;Carolyn A. Gunraj;Jie-Yuan Li

  • Interhemispheric facilitation of the hand area of the human motor cortex.

    Yoshikazu Ugawa;Ritsuko Hanajima;Ichiro Kanazawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshikazu Ugawa
Yoshikazu Ugawa Fukushima Medical University
Yasuo Terao
Yasuo Terao Kyorin University
Toshiaki Furubayashi
Toshiaki Furubayashi Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University
Shoji Tsuji
Shoji Tsuji University of Tokyo
Katsuyuki Sakai
Katsuyuki Sakai University of Tokyo
Robert Chen
Robert Chen University Health Network
Andres M. Lozano
Andres M. Lozano University of Toronto
Okihide Hikosaka
Okihide Hikosaka National Institutes of Health
Sid Kouider
Sid Kouider École Normale Supérieure
Aritoshi Iida
Aritoshi Iida Nippon Medical School

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