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Shigeo Kinomura

Shigeo Kinomura

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Neuroscience

D-Index
33
Citations
6218
World Ranking
9418
National Ranking
351

Overview

Shigeo Kinomura is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan. Their research spans several fields within medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on neurology and psychiatric aspects related to cognitive impairment and neurological diseases.

Their published works include two recent papers: "Difficulties with Workplace Support for a Patient with Frontotemporal Dementia: A Case Report" published in 2021 in the International Medical Case Reports Journal, and "An Insight to Illness Narrated by A Patient with Right Hemisphere Damage Associated with Frontal Blood Flow Changes: An Implication for Self-Treatment of Lifestyle-Related Diseases" published in 2020 in Archives of Clinical and Medical Case Reports.

Kinomura's research emphasizes a range of topics including:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
  • Neurology and Historical Studies

Their main fields of study cover Medicine and Neuroscience, with subfields extending into Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Epidemiology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Frequent co-authors in Kinomura's work include Kenichi Meguro, Mika Kumai, Keiichi Kumai, Kei Nakamura, and Junko Takada. Collaborative efforts have been published primarily in the International Medical Case Reports Journal and the Archives of Clinical and Medical Case Reports.

Best Publications

  • Activation by Attention of the Human Reticular Formation and Thalamic Intralaminar Nuclei

    Shigeo Kinomura;Jonas Larsson;Balázs Gulyás;Per E. Roland

  • Two different areas within the primary motor cortex of man

    Stefan Geyer;Anders Ledberg;Axel Schleicher;Shigeo Kinomura

  • Relationship between body mass index and gray matter volume in 1,428 healthy individuals.

    Yasuyuki Taki;Shigeo Kinomura;Kazunori Sato;Kentaro Inoue

  • Regional cerebral blood flow changes of cortical motor areas and prefrontal areas in humans related to ipsilateral and contralateral hand movement.

    Ryuta Kawashima;Kenji Yamada;Shigeo Kinomura;Tatsuo Yamaguchi

  • Functional anatomy of taste perception in the human brain studied with positron emission tomography

    Shigeo Kinomura;Ryuta Kawashima;Kenji Yamada;Shuichi Ono

  • Voxel-based morphometry of human brain with age and cerebrovascular risk factors.

    Yasuyuki Taki;Ryoi Goto;Alan Evans;Alex Zijdenbos

  • Fast reaction to different sensory modalities activates common fields in the motor areas, but the anterior cingulate cortex is involved in the speed of reaction

    Eiichi Naito;Shigeo Kinomura;Stefan Geyer;Ryuta Kawashima

  • Correlations among Brain Gray Matter Volumes, Age, Gender, and Hemisphere in Healthy Individuals

    Yasuyuki Taki;Benjamin Thyreau;Shigeo Kinomura;Kazunori Sato

  • Age-related changes in topological organization of structural brain networks in healthy individuals.

    Kai Wu;Yasuyuki Taki;Kazunori Sato;Shigeo Kinomura

  • Somatosensory Activations of the Parietal Operculum of Man. A PET Study

    Anders Ledberg;Brendan T. O'Sullivan;Shigeo Kinomura;Per E. Roland

  • Male elderly subthreshold depression patients have smaller volume of medial part of prefrontal cortex and precentral gyrus compared with age-matched normal subjects: a voxel-based morphometry.

    Yasuyuki Taki;Shigeo Kinomura;Shuichi Awata;Kentaro Inoue

  • A PET study of visuomotor learning under optical rotation.

    Kentaro Inoue;Ryuta Kawashima;Kazunori Satoh;Shigeo Kinomura

  • PET Study of Pointing With Visual Feedback of Moving Hands

    Kentaro Inoue;Ryuta Kawashima;Kazunori Satoh;Shigeo Kinomura

  • A bone marrow F-18 FDG uptake exceeding the liver uptake may indicate bone marrow hyperactivity

    Kentaro Inoue;Ryoi Goto;Ken Okada;Shigeo Kinomura

  • SPECT imaging of normal subjects with technetium-99m-HMPAO and technetium-99m-ECD.

    Masamichi Koyama;Ryuta Kawashima;Hiroshi Ito;Shuichi Ono

  • Hypoperfusion in the supplementary motor area, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and insular cortex in Parkinson's disease.

    Akio Kikuchi;Atsushi Takeda;Teiko Kimpara;Manabu Nakagawa

  • Activity in the parietal area during visuomotor learning with optical rotation.

    Kentaro Inoue;Ryuta Kawashima;Kazunori Satoh;Shigeo Kinomura

  • Visual recognition: Evidence for two distinctive mechanisms from a PET study

    Priyantha Herath;Shigeo Kinomura;Per E. Roland

  • Both global gray matter volume and regional gray matter volume negatively correlate with lifetime alcohol intake in non-alcohol-dependent Japanese men: a volumetric analysis and a voxel-based morphometry.

    Yasuyuki Taki;Shigeo Kinomura;Kazunori Sato;Ryoui Goto

  • A longitudinal study of gray matter volume decline with age and modifying factors

    Yasuyuki Taki;Shigeo Kinomura;Kazunori Sato;Ryoi Goto

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Fukuda
Hiroshi Fukuda Tohoku University
Ryuta Kawashima
Ryuta Kawashima Tohoku University
Yasuyuki Taki
Yasuyuki Taki Tohoku University
Motoaki Sugiura
Motoaki Sugiura Tohoku University
Per E. Roland
Per E. Roland University of Copenhagen
Masatoshi Itoh
Masatoshi Itoh Tohoku University
Hiroshi Ito
Hiroshi Ito Fukushima Medical University
Stefan Geyer
Stefan Geyer Max Planck Society
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Iwao Kanno
Iwao Kanno National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology

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