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Shigeto Yamawaki

Shigeto Yamawaki

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Neuroscience

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79
Citations
20259
World Ranking
1702
National Ranking
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Overview

Shigeto Yamawaki is a researcher affiliated with Hiroshima University in Japan specializing in Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research focuses extensively on cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry and mental health, with additional work in experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and pharmacology.

Their main research topics include functional brain connectivity studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Further areas of interest involve EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and music perception, and broader mental health research topics.

Yamawaki has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Yasumasa Okamoto, Atsuo Yoshino, Takafumi Sasaoka, Go Okada, and Masahiro Takamura. These collaborations are reflected in publications across a number of academic journals and platforms.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Yamawaki include:

  • "An insula hierarchical network architecture for active interoceptive inference," 2022, Royal Society Open Science
  • "Kynurenic acid is a potential overlapped biomarker between diagnosis and treatment response for depression from metabolome analysis," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Primary functional brain connections associated with melancholic major depressive disorder and modulation by antidepressants," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Lesions in the right Rolandic operculum are associated with self-rating affective and apathetic depressive symptoms for post-stroke patients," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Antidepressive effect of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex neurofeedback in patients with major depressive disorder: A preliminary report," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders

Yamawaki's publications are frequently found in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

The researcher has also contributed to book publications, including the work titled Developments in Implicit Measurements, published by Frontiers Media in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Prediction of immediate and future rewards differentially recruits cortico-basal ganglia loops

    Saori C Tanaka;Kenji Doya;Go Okada;Kazutaka Ueda

  • Chronic lithium treatment increases the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the rat brain.

    Takuji Fukumoto;Shigeru Morinobu;Yasumasa Okamoto;Ariyuki Kagaya

  • DNA Methylation Profiles of the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Gene as a Potent Diagnostic Biomarker in Major Depression

    Manabu Fuchikami;Shigeru Morinobu;Masahiro Segawa;Yasumasa Okamoto

  • SINGLE PROLONGED STRESS: TOWARD AN ANIMAL MODEL OF POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

    Shigeto Yamamoto;Shigeru Morinobu;Shiro Takei;Manabu Fuchikami

  • Low-serotonin levels increase delayed reward discounting in humans

    Nicolas Schweighofer;Mathieu Bertin;Kazuhiro Shishida;Yasumasa Okamoto

  • Incidence of silent cerebral infarction in patients with major depression.

    T Fujikawa;S Yamawaki;Y Touhouda

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression changes medial prefrontal and ventral anterior cingulate cortex activity associated with self-referential processing

    Shinpei Yoshimura;Yasumasa Okamoto;Keiichi Onoda;Miki Matsunaga

  • Attenuated left prefrontal activation during a verbal fluency task in patients with depression.

    G Okada;Y Okamoto;S Morinobu;S Yamawaki

  • Single immobilization stress differentially alters the expression profile of transcripts of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene and histone acetylation at its promoters in the rat hippocampus.

    Manabu Fuchikami;Shigeru Morinobu;Akiko Kurata;Shigeto Yamamoto

  • Development of an Impact Thermometer for use in combination with the Distress Thermometer as a brief screening tool for adjustment disorders and/or major depression in cancer patients

    Nobuya Akizuki;Shigeto Yamawaki;Tatsuo Akechi;Tomohito Nakano

  • Effects of Single Prolonged Stress and D-Cycloserine on Contextual Fear Extinction and Hippocampal NMDA Receptor Expression in a Rat Model of PTSD

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  • Negative correlation between right prefrontal activity during response inhibition and impulsiveness: a fMRI study.

    Shuji Asahi;Yasumasa Okamoto;Go Okada;Shigeto Yamawaki

  • Reduced activation of posterior cingulate cortex during imagery in subjects with high degrees of alexithymia : A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Tomoyuki Mantani;Yasumasa Okamoto;Naoko Shirao;Go Okada

  • Serotonin Differentially Regulates Short- and Long-Term Prediction of Rewards in the Ventral and Dorsal Striatum

    Saori C. Tanaka;Nicolas Schweighofer;Shuji Asahi;Kazuhiro Shishida

  • Depression or apathy and functional recovery after stroke.

    Seiji Hama;Hidehisa Yamashita;Masaya Shigenobu;Atsuko Watanabe

  • Brain activity during expectancy of emotional stimuli: an fMRI study.

    Kazutaka Ueda;Yasumasa Okamoto;Go Okada;Hidehisa Yamashita

  • Decreased ventral anterior cingulate cortex activity is associated with reduced social pain during emotional support

    Keiichi Onoda;Yasumasa Okamoto;Ken'ichiro Nakashima;Hiroshi Nittono

  • Sodium butyrate abolishes lipopolysaccharide-induced depression-like behaviors and hippocampal microglial activation in mice.

    Yosuke Yamawaki;Yosuke Yamawaki;Norika Yoshioka;Kanako Nozaki;Hikaru Ito

  • A review of the current nomenclature for psychotropic agents and an introduction to the Neuroscience-based Nomenclature

    Joseph Zohar;Stephen Stahl;Hans Jurgen Moller;Pierre Blier

  • Antidepressant drug treatments induce glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) synthesis and release in rat C6 glioblastoma cells

    Kazue Hisaoka;Akira Nishida;Tetsuzo Koda;Masahiko Miyata

  • Self-referential processing of negative stimuli within the ventral anterior cingulate gyrus and right amygdala.

    Shinpei Yoshimura;Kazutaka Ueda;Shin ichi Suzuki;Keiichi Onoda

  • Decreased levels of whole blood glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) in remitted patients with mood disorders.

    Minoru Takebayashi;Kazue Hisaoka;Akira Nishida;Mami Tsuchioka

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasumasa Okamoto
Yasumasa Okamoto Hiroshima University
Go Okada
Go Okada Hiroshima University
Kenji Doya
Kenji Doya Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Hitoshi Okamura
Hitoshi Okamura Hiroshima University
Yoshihiro Nakata
Yoshihiro Nakata Hiroshima University
Tetsuya Suhara
Tetsuya Suhara National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Masahiko Mikuni
Masahiko Mikuni Gunma University
Nicolas Schweighofer
Nicolas Schweighofer University of Southern California
Kiyohisa Takahashi
Kiyohisa Takahashi Shiga University of Medical Science
Hidehiko Takahashi
Hidehiko Takahashi Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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